The Bad Taste of Others Judging Literary Value in Eighteenth-Century France |
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| Author:
| Tsien, Jennifer |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8122-0512-1 |
| Publication Date: | May 2012 |
| Publisher: | University of Pennsylvania Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $65.00 |
Book Description:
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Faced with the potential chaos of an expanding literary market Montesquieu, Voltaire, Diderot, and other Enlightenment writers used the damning label of "bad taste" in order to claim the authority to shape the French literary heritage in their image.
Faced with the potential chaos of an expanding literary market Montesquieu, Voltaire, Diderot, and other Enlightenment writers used the damning label of "bad taste" in order to claim the authority to shape the French literary heritage in their image.