French 340 - TOPICS IN 17TH/18TH CENT LIT

Topics course. How did social networks connect people who shared common interests and activities in early modern France? What defines the so-called French sociability and how does it emerge in both court and town society in the early 17th-century? We look at theater as a place of civil interchange, the academies, the salons, private correspondences, among other social spaces, to understand how social networks played an integral role in the production of knowledge and the process of Enlightenment to better understand how the social life of the past has come to shape the contours of the present.

Topic: Social Networking in Early Modern France.