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PublisherNorthwestern University Press
ISBN-100810148129
ISBN-139780810148123
eBay Product ID (ePID)9068270388
Product Key Features
Number of Pages280 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameIn the Sun King's Cosmos : Comets and the Cultural Imagination of Seventeenth-Century France
Publication Year2025
SubjectEuropean / French, General, Astronomy, Modern / 17th Century
TypeTextbook
AuthorClaire Goldstein
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Art, Science
SeriesRethinking the Early Modern Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight16 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2024-037264
Reviews"This is a book everyone will have to know and cite and, more importantly, that everyone will want to devour and discuss." --Faith E. Beasley, Dartmouth College, "Claire Goldstein wears her erudition lightly, effortlessly weaving together materials from an impressive array of sources and disciplines, while elegantly bringing out new interpretive layers in the material at hand." --Hall Bjørnstad, Indiana University Bloomington
Table Of ContentList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part One. Mediatic Comets Chapter 1. "Si confondus à la tour de Babel": Comets and the Commercial Press in Late Seventeenth-Century France Part Two. Cométomanie, 1664-65 Chapter 2. Comet Ballets Chapter 3. Beyond the Eye of Absolutism: Claude Perrault's Observatoire Royal and the Intractable Challenge of Comets Part Three. Cométomanie, 1680-81 Chapter 4. Comets as Commercial Circulation in "la petite comédie de La comète " Chapter 5. "La comète appartient à tout le dessein du livre et non le dessein du livre à la comète": Genres of Disenchantment in Bayle's Pensées diverses sur la comète Cometic Conclusions Notes Bibliography Index
SynopsisIn the winters of 1664-65 and 1680-81, the French public was galvanized by two bright comets whose elliptical orbits could not be mapped with contemporary geometry. Bookending the period during which Louis XIV's sun king mythology was created, these comets defied the heliocentric order to which French politics and culture, aspired. As Claire Goldstein demonstrates, literary texts, cultural institutions and architecture inspired -by comets offer a different perspective on the relationship between sensory experience; ideology, and artistic form. In the Sun King's Cosmos: Comets and the Cultural Imagination of Seventeenth-Century France presents an alternative view of a formative era in cultural and political history, when distinctly modern forms of power and control were established through a regime of the spectacular. Goldstein shows how comets allow us to see the seventeenth century in ways that complicate the narrative of a race toward rationalization, classicism, and modernity, indexing instead a messy period in which the spectacular was sometimes also inscrutable., Offering a new history of a formative cultural and political era through the cosmic phenomena that captured the public's imagination In the winters of 1664-65 and 1680-81, the French public was galvanized by two bright comets whose elliptical orbits could not be mapped with contemporary geometry and that thus seemed to appear in random and unpredictable locations. Bookending the period during which Louis XIV's sun king mythology was created, these comets defied the heliocentric order to which French politics and culture aspired. As Claire Goldstein demonstrates, literary texts, cultural institutions, and architecture inspired by comets offer a different perspective on the relationship between sensory experience, ideology, and artistic form . In the Sun King's Cosmos: Comets and the Cultural Imagination of Seventeenth-Century France presents an alternative view of a formative era in cultural and political history, when distinctly modern forms of power and control were established through a regime of the spectacular. Goldstein shows how comets allow us to see the seventeenth century in ways that complicate the narrative of a race toward rationalization, classicism, and modernity, indexing instead a messy period in which the spectacular was sometimes also inscrutable., In the Sun King's Cosmos: Comets and the Cultural Imagination of Seventeenth-Century France explores the relationship between sensory experience, state ideology, and artistic form, examining literature and art inspired by comets that unsettled the heliocentric order to which French politics and culture aspired.
LC Classification NumberNX650.C677G65 2025
