Enlightened Pleasures - Eighteenth-Century France and the New Epicureanism

Novelists, artists, and philosophers of the eighteenth century understood pleasure as a virtue - a gift to be shared with one's companion, with a reader, or with the public. This book overturns the prevailing scholarly tradition that views eighteenth-century France primarily as the incubator of the Revolution.

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• Authors: Thomas M Kavanagh, Thomas M. Kavanagh
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.04.2010
• EAN: 9780300140941
• ISBN: 978-0-300-14094-1
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History; Lewis Walpole Series in Eighte; The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History; Lewis Walpole Series in Eighte
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries