No tomorrow : the ethics of pleasure in the French Enlightenment

Author(s)

• Cusset, Catherine

Bibliographic Information

No tomorrow : the ethics of pleasure in the French Enlightenment

Catherine Cusset

University Press of Virginia, 1999

• cloth : alk. paper

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-201) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This work traces the moral meaning of pleasure in libertine works of 18th-century France. The author contends that libertine works are linked by an ""ethics of pleasure"" that teaches readers that vanity and sensual enjoyment are part of their moral being.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA45899747
• ISBN:
  • 081391860X
• LCCN: 98055780
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Charlottesville ; London
• Pages/Volumes: xiv, 208 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PQ618
  • DC21 : 843/.509353
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : French fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Pleasure in literature