Rococo Fiction in France, 1600-1715 - Seditious Frivolity

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

By Allison Stedman

Product details

• Authors: Allison Stedman
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.11.2012
• EAN: 9781611484366
• ISBN: 978-1-61148-436-6
• No. of pages: 258
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 563 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies