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Styles of Enlightenment : taste, politics and authorship in eighteenth-century France / Elena Russo.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Russo, Elena.
- Series:
- Parallax (Baltimore, Md.)
- Parallax
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- French literature--18th century--History and criticism.
- French literature.
- Enlightenment--France.
- Enlightenment.
- France--Intellectual life--18th century.
- France.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (361 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- It teases out the finer points of division on the public battlefields of literature and politics and the new world of contesting sexual economies.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Prologue: Boudoir and Tribune; 1 A Faded Coquette: Marivaux and the Philosophes; 2 Fakes, Impostors, and Beaux Esprits: Conversation's Backstage; 3 The Sly and the Coy Mistress: Style and Manner from Fénelon to Diderot; 4 Capturing Fireside Conversation: Diderot and Marivaux's Stylistic Challenge; 5 Grace and the Epistemology of Confused Perception; 6 Between Paris and Rome: Montesquieu's Poetry of History; 7 Montesquieu for the Masses, or Implanting False Memory; 8 Everlasting Theatricality: Arlequin and the Untamed Parterre
- Epilogue: The Costume of ModernityNotes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I ; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8018-9610-X
- 0-8018-9411-5
- OCLC:
- 923194659
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