Binding: Hardcover
Description: 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.
Title: Enlightened Pleasures Eighteenth - Century France And The New Epicureanism
Author(s): Kavanagh Thomas M.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Barcode: 9780300140941
Pages: 264 Pages, 21 B-W Illus.
Publication Date: 3/16/2010
Series: The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
Category: Social & Cultural History