Morality and Social Class in Eighteenth-Century French Literature and Painting

by Warren Roberts

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The moralistic tendencies that culminated in the Republic of Virtue can be traced in literature back to the late seventeenth century. In the 1690s two separate and antithetical moralities began to take shape, one erotic and libertine, the other highly moralistic. Both represented a revolt against the formalism of the seventeenth century. The roman rotique was rooted in a hedonistic philosophy whose objective was to enlarge the scope of freedom,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1487581319

ISBN13:9781487581312

Release Date:December 1974

Publisher:University of Toronto Press

Length:240 Pages

Weight:0.83 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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Art Arts, Music & Photography Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Philosophy

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