In the Sun King's Cosmos: Comets and the Cultural Imagination of Seventeenth-Century France - Rethinking the Early Modern - Claire Goldstein - Books - Northwestern University Press - 9780810148123 - February 15, 2025
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In the Sun King's Cosmos: Comets and the Cultural Imagination of Seventeenth-Century France - Rethinking the Early Modern


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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. 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.

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released February 15, 2025
ISBN13 9780810148123
Publishers Northwestern University Press
Pages 280
Dimensions 150 × 220 × 20 mm   ·   454 g

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