Seeing Through the Mother Goose Tales: Visual Turns in the Writings of Charles Perrault

by Philip E. Lewis

During the first half of the reign of Louis XIV, Charles Perrault enjoyed the status of a prominent public intellectual. A key player in the development of the arts, he has commonly been situated in French literary and cultural history as the spokesman for the Moderns in the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns, the seventeenth century's protracted aesthetic controversy. During the 1690s, after falling from political favour, Perrault took up the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804724105
• ISBN13: 9780804724104
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.8"