Styles of Enlightenment: Taste, Politics, and Authorship in Eighteenth-Century France
(Part of the Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society Series)
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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 they looked down on those forms of art that they saw as commercial, popular, and merely entertaining...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0801894115
ISBN13:9780801894114
Release Date:December 2009
Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
Length:366 Pages
Weight:1.17 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
Age Range:22 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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