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Styles of Enlightenment : taste, politics and authorship in eighteenth-century France /

"Styles of Enlightenment argues that alongside its democratic ideals and its efforts to create a unified public sphere, the Enlightenment also displayed a tendency to erect rigid barriers when it came to matters of style and artistic expression." "Through readings of fictions, essays,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Russo, Elena
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
Colección:Parallax (Baltimore, Md.)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: Boudoir and tribune
  • A faded coquette: Marivaux and the Philosophes
  • Fakes, impostors, and Beaux esprits: conversation's backstage
  • The sly and the coy mistress: style and manner from Fénelon to Diderot
  • Capturing fireside conversation: Diderot and Marivaux's stylistic challenge
  • Grace and the epistemology of confused perception
  • Between Paris and Rome: Montesquieu's poetry of history
  • Montesquieu for the masses, or implanting false memory
  • Everlasting theatricality: Arlequin and the untamed parterre
  • Epilogue: The costume of modernity.