Taste and Ideology in Seventeenth-Century France

by Michael Moriarty

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This book analyses the use of the crucial concept of 'taste' in the works of five major seventeenth-century French authors, M r , Saint Evremond, La Rochefoucauld, La Bruy re and Boileau. It combines close readings of important texts with a thoroughgoing political analysis of seventeenth-century French society in terms of class and gender. Dr Moriarty shows that far from being timeless and universal, the term 'taste' is culture-specific, shifting...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521113369

ISBN13:9780521113366

Release Date:June 2009

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:244 Pages

Weight:0.69 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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