Styles of Enlightenment: Taste, Politics, and Authorship in Eighteenth-Century France

by Elena Russo

Book Overview

Styles of Enlightenment argues that alongside its democratic ideals and its efforts to create a unified public sphere, the Enlightenment also displayed a tendency to erect rigid barriers when it came to matters of style and artistic expression. The French philosophes tackled the issue of the hierarchy of genres with surprising inflexibility, and they looked down on those forms of art that they saw as commercial, popular, and merely entertaining...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801894115
• ISBN13: 9780801894114
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher