In the Sun King's Cosmos: Comets and the Cultural Imagination of Seventeenth-Century France by Goldstein, Claire
In the Sun King's Cosmos: Comets and the Cultural Imagination of Seventeenth-Century France by Goldstein, Claire

In the Sun King's Cosmos: Comets and the Cultural Imagination of Seventeenth-Century France

Offering a new history of a formative cultural and political era through the cosmic phenomena that captured...
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Author: Claire Goldstein
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In the Sun King's Cosmos: Comets and the Cultural Imagination of Seventeenth-Century France by Goldstein, Claire

In the Sun King's Cosmos: Comets and the Cultural Imagination of Seventeenth-Century France

$237.29
In the Sun King's Cosmos: Comets and the Cultural Imagination of Seventeenth-Century France by Goldstein, Claire

In the Sun King's Cosmos: Comets and the Cultural Imagination of Seventeenth-Century France

$237.29
Author: Claire Goldstein
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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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.



Author: Claire Goldstein
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 02/15/2025
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
ISBN: 9780810148123

About the Author

CLAIRE GOLDSTEIN is a professor of French at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Vaux and Versailles: The Appropriations, Erasures, and Accidents That Made Modern France.


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