Welch / Longino Networks, Interconnection, Connectivity

Selected Essays from the 44th North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature Conference, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill & Duke University May 15-17, 2014
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-3-8233-7970-6
Verlag: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 210, 213 Seiten

Reihe: Biblio 17

The map we draw of seventeenth-century French literary and intellectual culture is usually a small one, centered on Paris and Versailles to reflect the consolidation of intellectual and artistic capital under absolutism. Yet this process of centrali-zation depended on the creation of strong infrastructures connecting France's seat of political and cultural power to the provinces and the rest of the world: an efficient postal system, Europe's largest network of foreign embassies, trade links stretching to Asia and the Americas. How might a focus on these networks - and on the agents, materials, concepts, and practices that constituted them - broaden our mental topo-graphy of seventeenth-century French culture? This question animated a rich discussion during the May 2014 conference of the North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, held at Duke University and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. The present volume represents a selec-tion of the contributions to the conference.

Ellen R. Welch is an Associate Professor of French & Francophone Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Michèle Longino is a Professor of Romance Studies at Duke University.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Welch, Ellen R.

Longino, Michèle