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Author Allison Stedman makes a case for the rococo as a seventeenth-century literary phenomenon that provided an ideological counterpoint to the rise of French political absolutism. Stedman traces the rococo's evolution and the study unearths the rococo's counter-vision for the origins of the French Enlightenment.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
A Note on Translations
Introduction
Chapter One - "Innovation in Early Seventeenth-Century France"
Chapter Two - "The Origins of the Rococo"
Chapter Three - "The Rococo and the Transfiguration of the Old-Regime Social Sphere"
Chapter Four - "The Rococo and the Transfiguration of the Salon"
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Allison Stedman is associate professor of French at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. She has published articles on early modern French literary portraits, psalm paraphrases, novels, and fairy tales, as well as on pedagogical strategies for teaching French and Italian literature and culture at the university level. With Perry Gethner, she is the co-editor and translator of A Trip to the Country by Henriette-Julie de Castelnau,Comtesse de Murat.
Summary
Author Allison Stedman makes a case for the rococo as a seventeenth-century literary phenomenon that provided an ideological counterpoint to the rise of French political absolutism. Stedman traces the rococo’s evolution and the study unearths the rococo’s counter-vision for the origins of the French Enlightenment.
