num_pages: 216
description: What can we know about the understanding of time in a particular cultural or historical setting, and what can this knowledge tell us about how we think about time today? Time and Ways of Molière, Sévigné, Lafayette raises these questions by examining the scientific measurement and perception of time in seventeenth-century Europe and particularly in France.This widely researched book argues that the technological and social changes relating to time have a paradoxical impact in seventeenth-century France; they lead to more control of the individual, thus intruding upon the realm of the private, and at the same time encourage the development of a newfound sense of privacy and subjectivity, partly in reaction to the increasing control of the individual by the state. This Foucaludian hypothesis is compellingly developed through a number of critical readings in historical the social framework of court life under Louis XIV is made to shed light on Moli
language: English
title: Time and Ways of Knowing Under Louis XIV: Moliere, Sevigne, Lafayette
titlecomplete: Time and Ways of Knowing Under Louis XIV: Moliere, Sevigne, Lafayette (The Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
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publisher: UNKNO