Morality and Social Class in Eighteenth-Century French Literature and Painting /

Morality and Social Class in Eighteenth-Century French Literature and Painting / / Warren Roberts.

The moralistic tendencies that culminated in the Republic of Virtue can be traced in literature back to the late seventeenth century. In the 1690s two separate and antithetical moralities began to take shape, one erotic and libertine, the other highly moralistic. Both represented a revolt against th...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Roberts, Warren,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Christian idea of love and marriage
  • 2. The inner connection between the seventeenth-century nouvelle and the eighteenth-century roman érotique
  • 3. Aristocratic manners
  • 4. Aristocratic perversity in the roman érotique
  • 5. Sentimentalism and moralistic literature
  • 6. Marriage and moralistic literature
  • 7. The social context of moralistic literature
  • 8. Social discontent in French literature
  • 9. Erotic love in eighteenth-century painting
  • 10. Didacticism in eighteenth-century painting
  • 11. Duality in literature and painting
  • 12. Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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