Baroque Topographies: Literature, History, Philosophy

Baroque culture offers that rarest of phenomena--a set of texts with no theory. This collection of interdisciplinary essays by literary critics, historians, and philosophers offers historical and theoretical meditations on the relationship of aesthetics and politics, text and history, and culture and society in the French Baroque period. The authors discuss such major figures and institutions as Descartes, Corneille, Bernini, d'Aubigne, and Richelieu.