Taste and Ideology in Seventeenth-Century France
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- Author: Michael Moriarty
- Date Published: June 2009
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521113366
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This book analyses the use of the crucial concept of 'taste' in the works of five major seventeenth-century French authors, Méré, Saint Evremond, La Rochefoucauld, La Bruyère 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.
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- Date Published: June 2009
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521113366
- length: 244 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 14 mm
- weight: 0.31kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
1. 'Taste' and history
2. Defining goǔt: the dictionaries
3. Méré: taste and the ideology of honněteté
4. Saint Evremond: taste and cultural hegemony
5. La Rochefoucauld: tastes and their vicissitudes
6. La Bruyère: taste-discourse and the absent subject
7. Boileau: taste and the institution of 'literature'
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
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