Cultural Exchange In Seventeenth Century France And England

Download or read book Cultural Exchange in Seventeenth-century France and England written by Gesa Stedman and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ambitious new study is a comprehensive account of cross-channel cultural exchanges between seventeenth-century France and England, and includes discussion of literary texts, poems, historical figures, garden design, fashion, music, dance, food, the book market, and the theater. Gesa Stedman investigates actual exchange processes in order to shed light on the connection between actual and symbolic exchange, and provides welcome insight into seventeenth-century cultural exchange.