Networks, Interconnection, Connectivity - Selected Essays from the 44th North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature Conference, Uiversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill & Duke University May 15-17, 2014

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 centralization 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 topography 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 selection of the contributions to the Conference.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Michèle Longino
• Assisted by: Longino (Editor), Longino (Editor), Michèle Longino (Editor), Elle R Welch (Editor), Ellen R Welch (Editor), Ellen R. Welch (Editor)
• Publisher: Narr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2015
• EAN: 9783823369707
• ISBN: 978-3-8233-6970-7
• No. of pages: 213
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 207 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 299 g
• Series: Biblio 17; Biblio 17; Biblio 17, Bd. 210
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; Literaturwissenschaft, Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik, Siebzehntes Jahrhundert, Französisch, 17. Jahrhundert (1600 bis 1699 n. Chr.), Romanistik / Französisch / Literaturwissenschaft, Französisch / Literaturwissenschaft