In the Sun King's cosmos : comets and the cultural imagination of seventeenth-century France / Claire Goldstein.

Author/creator Goldstein, Claire author.
Format Book
PublicationEvanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2025.
Descriptionxi, 291 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesRethinking the Early Modern
Rethinking the Early Modern. ^A1257318
Contents Part one. Mediatic comets -- "Si confondus à la tour de Babel" : comets and the commercial press in late seventeenth-century France -- Part two. Comètomanie, 1664-65 -- Comet ballets -- Beyond the eye of absolutism : Claude Perrault's Observatoire Royal and the intractable challenge of comets -- Part three. Comètomanie, 1680-81 -- Comets as commercial circulation in "la petite comédie de La comète" -- "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.
Abstract "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2024037264
ISBN9780810148123
ISBN0810148129 (cloth)
ISBN9780810148147 (paperback)
ISBN0810148145 (paperback)
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