{"product_id":"the-written-world-jeffrey-n-peters-9780810136977","title":"The Written World: Space, Literature, and the Chorological Imagination in Early Modern France","description":"In \u003ci\u003eThe Written World: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpace, Literature, and the Chorological Imagination in Early Modern France\u003c\/i\u003e, Jeffrey N. Peters argues that geographic space may be understood as a foundational, originating principle of literary creation. By way of an innovative reading of \u003ci\u003echora\u003c\/i\u003e, a concept developed by Plato in the \u003ci\u003eTimaeus\u003c\/i\u003e and often construed by philosophical tradition as \"space,\" Peters shows that canonical literary works of the French seventeenth century are guided by what he calls a \"chorological\" approach to artistic invention. The chorological imagination describes the poetic as a cosmological event that gives location to--or, more accurately, in Plato's terms, receives--the world as an object of thought. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In analyses of well-known authors such as Corneille, Molière, Racine, and Madame de Lafayette, Peters demonstrates that the apparent absence of physical space in seventeenth-century literary depiction indicates a subtle engagement with, rather than a rejection of, evolving principles of cosmological understanding. Space is not absent in these works so much as transformed in keeping with contemporaneous developments in early modern natural philosophy. \u003ci\u003eThe Written World\u003c\/i\u003e will appeal to philosophers of literature and literary theorists as well as scholars of early modern Europe and historians of science and geography\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jeffrey N. Peters\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 081013697X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780810136977\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Northwestern University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/15\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2019","brand":"Jeffrey N. Peters","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49096744206591,"sku":"9780810136977","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-written-world-jeffrey-n-peters-9780810136977","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}