Styles of Enlightenment : Taste, Politics, and Authorship in Eighteenth-Century France.
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- 9780801896101
- 840.9/384
- PQ261 .R87 2007
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Prologue: Boudoir and Tribune -- 1 A Faded Coquette: Marivaux and the Philosophes -- 2 Fakes, Impostors, and Beaux Esprits: Conversation's Backstage -- 3 The Sly and the Coy Mistress: Style and Manner from Fénelon to Diderot -- 4 Capturing Fireside Conversation: Diderot and Marivaux's Stylistic Challenge -- 5 Grace and the Epistemology of Confused Perception -- 6 Between Paris and Rome: Montesquieu's Poetry of History -- 7 Montesquieu for the Masses, or Implanting False Memory -- 8 Everlasting Theatricality: Arlequin and the Untamed Parterre -- Epilogue: The Costume of Modernity -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
It teases out the finer points of division on the public battlefields of literature and politics and the new world of contesting sexual economies.
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