Managing Time
Literature and Devotion in Early Modern France
This volume offers a multidimensional exploration of the theme of time in early modern France: of time past, time present and time future, in literature and in life.In poetry, the importance of past and future perspectives was studied by Maynard and La Fontaine. The dynamics of tragic drama were haunted by the past, driven by the urgency of the present and pervasively aware of the alternative futures that could be created, while in imaginative fiction there was a perennial fascination with possible future societies, Utopian or otherwise.The awareness of transience and mortality gave urgency to the right ordering of life. The Church offered gu…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Maber, Richard (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-78707-492-7
- EAN: 9781787074927
- Produktnummer: 24018329
- Verlag: Peter Lang Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 278 S.
- Masse: H15.0 cm x B22.3 cm x D1.9 cm 400 g
- Auflage: New ed
- Abbildungen: 27 Illustrations, unspecified
- Gewicht: 400
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
Über den Autor
Richard Maber is Emeritus Professor of French at Durham University and former director of the university's interdisciplinary Research Centre for Seventeenth-Century Studies. He is also the founder and General Editor of the journal The Seventeenth Century. His principal research interests are seventeenth-century French poetry and early modern intellectual history, especially the networks of learned correspondence of the European Republic of Letters. He is currently editing the extensive complete correspondence of Gilles Ménage (1613-1692).Joanna Barker is an honorary research fellow of the Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Durham University. Her interests include writing by early modern women and issues related to translation.
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