Taste and ideology in seventeenth-century France
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Taste and ideology in seventeenth-century France
(Cambridge studies in French)
Cambridge University Press, 2009, c1988
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First published 1988
"This digitally printed version 2009"--T.p. verso
"Paperback re-issue"--Backcover
Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-223) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This book analyses the use of the crucial concept of 'taste' in the works of five major seventeenth-century French authors, Mere, Saint Evremond, La Rochefoucauld, La Bruyere and Boileau. It combines close readings of important texts with a thoroughgoing political analysis of seventeenth-century French society in terms of class and gender. Dr Moriarty shows that far from being timeless and universal, the term 'taste' is culture-specific, shifting according to the needs of a writer and his social group. The notion of 'taste' not only helped to shape a new dominant culture, but also registered the conflicts within that culture between a view of taste that presupposted the values of 'polite society' as an exclusive (though not necessarily aristocratic) group, and a view that stressed the value of the classical-humanist tradition as a source of standards ratified by a broader public. this study sheds light not only on the central concept, but also on the individual authors discussed and on the norms of French classical literature in general.
目次
- Preface
- 1. 'Taste' and history
- 2. Defining gout: the dictionaries
- 3. Mere: taste and the ideology of honnetete
- 4. Saint Evremond: taste and cultural hegemony
- 5. La Rochefoucauld: tastes and their vicissitudes
- 6. La Bruyere: taste-discourse and the absent subject
- 7. Boileau: taste and the institution of 'literature'
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
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