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The Perraults : A Family of Letters in Early Modern France /

"This book shows how the family strategy of the Perraults interacted with their literary and scientific projects, leading to a revision of our image of the major cultural institutions of the seventeenth century"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Rabinovitch, Oded (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Representing a family of letters : images of authorship (1650-1750)
  • Finance and mobility : Pierre ascendant (1600-1660)
  • The Perraults in the countryside : Viry and literary sociability (1650-1680)
  • Failure in finance and the rise of Charles Perrault (1660-1680)
  • The Perraults and Versailles : mediating grandeur (1660-1700)
  • Claude Perrault and the mechanics of animals : family and scientific institutions (1660-1690)
  • Epilogue (1690-1730).