Enlightened Pleasures: Eighteenth-Century France and the New Epicureanism

by Thomas M. Kavanagh

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300140940
• ISBN13: 9780300140941
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"