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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 CulturalImagination 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.

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Brand: Northwestern
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0810148129
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 28 February 2025
Listed Since: 29 May 2024

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