The Bad Taste of Others : Judging Literary Value in Eighteenth-Century France /

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"An act of bad taste was more than a faux pas to French philosophers of the Enlightenment. To Montesquieu, Voltaire, Diderot, and others, bad taste in the arts could be a sign of the decline of a civilization. These intellectuals, faced with the potential chaos of an expanding literary market,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tsien, Jennifer Shianling, 1971-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
French literature.
Culture in literature.
Civilization in literature.
Aesthetics, French.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > French.
Litterature française > 18e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Esthetique française > 18e siecle.
Culture dans la litterature.
Civilisation dans la litterature.
French literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Aesthetics, French > 18th century.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Chapter one. Too Many Books
  • Chapter Two. What Is Good Taste?
  • Chapter Three. The Barbaric, or Of Time and Taste
  • Chapter Four. On Foreign Taste
  • Chapter Five. The Obscure, or Enigmas and the Enigmatic
  • Chapter Six. The Disorderly
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments.

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