Styles of Enlightenment Taste, Politics, and Authorship in Eighteenth-Century France |
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| Author:
| Russo, Elena |
| Series title: | Parallax: Re-Visions of Culture and Society Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8018-9411-4 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2009 |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $40.00 |
Book Description:
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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. The French philosophes tackled the issue of the hierarchy of genres with surprising inflexibility, and ......
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. The French philosophes tackled the issue of the hierarchy of genres with surprising inflexibility, and ......