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The temperamental nude: class, medicine and representation in eighteenth-century France

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The natural order -- The labour of love -- Temperament and the body -- Temperament and the ideal : ancient and modern -- The citizen body : the politics of abstraction -- A body one and indivisible : Jacobin representations of the people -- The labels of Hercules : representing the body after Thermidor -- The trouble with Tatius : David's Sabines and the end of public art.

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    Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2010

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    1750-1799

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    • 0729409945
    • 9780729409940

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