Enlightened pleasures : eighteenth-century France and the new epicureanism
- Title
- Enlightened pleasures : eighteenth-century France and the new epicureanism / Thomas M. Kavanagh.
- Published by
- New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press : Annie Burr Lewis Fund, c2010.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- 254 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Series statement
- The Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history
- Uniform title
- Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.
- Subject
- 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.
- Call number
- JFE 10-2257
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Author
- Kavanagh, Thomas M.
- Title
- Enlightened pleasures : eighteenth-century France and the new epicureanism / Thomas M. Kavanagh.
- Imprint
- New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press : Annie Burr Lewis Fund, c2010.
- Series
- The Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history
- Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- LCCN
- 2009027231
- ISBN
- 9780300140941 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0300140940 (cloth : alk. paper)
- Research call number
- JFE 10-2257