Rococo Fiction in France, 1600-1715 Seditious Frivolity |
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Author:
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Series title: | Transits: Literature, Thought and Culture 1650-1850 Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-1-283-73349-6 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2012 |
Publisher: | Bucknell University Press
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Book Format: | Ebook |
List Price: | USD $39.99 |
Book Description:
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Rococo Fiction in France, 1600-1715: Seditious Frivolity by Allison Stedman, PhD makes a case for the rococo as a seventeenth-century literary phenomenon that provided an aesthetic and ideological counterpoint to the emergence of the classical-baroque style and the rise of French political absolutism. Tracing the rococo s evolution over the course the seventeenth-century, and exploring its radicalization during the 1670s, 80s and 90s, the study unearths the rococo s counter-vision for...
More DescriptionRococo Fiction in France, 1600-1715: Seditious Frivolity by Allison Stedman, PhD makes a case for the rococo as a seventeenth-century literary phenomenon that provided an aesthetic and ideological counterpoint to the emergence of the classical-baroque style and the rise of French political absolutism. Tracing the rococo s evolution over the course the seventeenth-century, and exploring its radicalization during the 1670s, 80s and 90s, the study unearths the rococo s counter-vision for the origins and trajectory of the French Enlightenment. "