Enlightened pleasures : eighteenth-century France and the new epicureanism / Thomas M. Kavanagh.
Kavanagh, Thomas M.
2010
DC133.8 .K38 2010 (Mapit)
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Title Enlightened pleasures : eighteenth-century France and the new epicureanism / Thomas M. Kavanagh.
Author Kavanagh, Thomas M.
ISBN 9780300140941 (alk. paper)
0300140940 (alk. paper)
Imprint New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press : Annie Burr Lewis Fund, c2010.
Language English
Description 254 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number DC133.8 .K38 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification 944/.034
Summary "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. In this daring new book, Thomas Kavanagh overturns the prevailing scholarly tradition that views eighteenth-century France primarily as the incubator of the Revolution. Instead, Kavanagh demonstrates how the art and literature of the era put the experience of pleasure at the center of the cultural agenda, leading to advances in both ethics and aesthetics."--Publisher's description.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.
Record Appears in On-Campus Resources > Books
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Introduction: A new epicureanism
The pleasures of failure : Jourdan's Le guerrier philosophe
Mirroring pleasure : La Morlière's Angola
Life-writing as Epicurean allegory : Thérèse philosophe
The esthetics of pleasure : Du Bos and Boucher
Rousseau's Eudemony of liberty
Laclos' Anthropology of pleasure
Recasting the Epicurean novel : Mirabeau's La morale des sens
Theaters of pleasure
Conclusion: From pleasure to happiness.

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