taste, politics and authorship in eighteenth-century France /
First Statement of Responsibility
Elena Russo
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Baltimore :
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The Johns Hopkins University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2007
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xi, 346 p. ;
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24 cm
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Parallax
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Prologue: Boudoir and tribune -- A faded coquette: Marivaux and the Philosophes -- Fakes, impostors, and Beaux esprits: conversation's backstage -- The sly and the coy mistress: style and manner from Fénelon to Diderot -- Capturing fireside conversation: Diderot and Marivaux's stylistic challenge -- Grace and the epistemology of confused perception -- Between Paris and Rome: Montesquieu's poetry of history -- Montesquieu for the masses, or implanting false memory -- Everlasting theatricality: Arlequin and the untamed parterre -- Epilogue: The costume of modernity
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TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Enlightenment-- France
French literature-- 18th century-- History and criticism