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In the Sun King's Cosmos
Comets and the Cultural Imagination of Seventeenth-Century France
Claire Goldstein
(2025)
Sprog: Engelsk
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- Hardback: 296 sider
- Udgiver: Northwestern University Press (Februar 2025)
- ISBN: 9780810148123
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.
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
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