Enlightened pleasures : eighteenth-century France and the new epicureanism /
"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...
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| Language: | English |
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New Haven [Conn.] :
Yale University Press : Annie Burr Lewis Fund,
[2010]
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| Series: | Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: A new epicureanism
- The pleasures of failure : Jourdan's Le guerrier philosophe
- Mirroring pleasure : La Morlière's Angola
- Life-writing as Epicurean allegory : Thérèse philosophe
- The esthetics of pleasure : Du Bos and Boucher
- Rousseau's Eudemony of liberty
- Laclos' Anthropology of pleasure
- Recasting the Epicurean novel : Mirabeau's La morale des sens
- Theaters of pleasure
- Conclusion: From pleasure to happiness.
