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001 2009027231
003 DLC
005 20101001152302.0
008 090706s2010 ctua b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9780300140941 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a0300140940 (cloth : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn427438322
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050 00 $aDC133.8$b.K38 2010
082 00 $a944/.034$222
100 1 $aKavanagh, Thomas M.
245 10 $aEnlightened pleasures :$beighteenth-century France and the new epicureanism /$cThomas M. Kavanagh.
260 $aNew Haven [Conn.] :$bYale University Press :$bAnnie Burr Lewis Fund,$cc2010.
300 $a254 p. :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
490 1 $aThe Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: 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.
520 $a"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 France primarily as the incubator of the Revolution. Instead, Kavanagh demonstrates how the art and literature of the era put the experience of pleasure at the center of the cultural agenda, leading to advances in both ethics and aesthetics."--Publisher's description.
651 0 $aFrance$xIntellectual life$y18th century.
650 0 $aPhilosophy, French$y18th century.
651 0 $aFrance$xCivilization$xGreek influences.
650 0 $aEpicureans (Greek philosophy)
650 0 $aPleasure.
650 0 $aFrench literature$y18th century$xHistory and criticism.
830 0 $aLewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.