Esthetics of the Moment: Literature and Art in the French Enlightenment

by Thomas M. Kavanagh

The literature and art of the French Enlightenment is everywhere marked by an intense awareness of the moment. The parallel projects of living in, representing, and learning from the moment run through the Enlightenment's endeavors as tokens of an ambition and a heritage imposing its only and ultimately impossible cohesion. In this illuminating study, Thomas M. Kavanagh argues that Enlightenment culture and its tensions, contradictions, and achievements...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812233794
• ISBN13: 9780812233797
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"