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

by Warren Roberts

Book Overview

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 the formalism of the seventeenth century. The roman rotique was rooted in a hedonistic philosophy whose objective was to enlarge the scope of freedom,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1487581319
• ISBN13: 9781487581312
• Release Date: December 1974
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"