Taste and Ideology in Seventeenth-Century France

by Michael Moriarty

This book analyses the use of the crucial concept of 'taste' in the works of five major seventeenth-century French authors, M r , Saint Evremond, La Rochefoucauld, La Bruy re and Boileau. It combines close readings of important texts with a thoroughgoing political analysis of seventeenth-century French society in terms of class and gender. Dr Moriarty shows that far from being timeless and universal, the term 'taste' is culture-specific, shifting...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521113369
• ISBN13: 9780521113366
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"