Item #180173 Esthetics of the Moment: Literature and Art in the French Enlightenment. Thomas M. Kavanagh.
Esthetics of the Moment: Literature and Art in the French Enlightenment
Esthetics of the Moment: Literature and Art in the French Enlightenment

Esthetics of the Moment: Literature and Art in the French Enlightenment

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. Hardcover. Burgundy cloth boards with silver spine lettering; black dust jacket, color illustrated and white lettering; viii, 294 pp, bw illustrations. VG/VG- (light wear to dust jacket). Item #180173
ISBN: 9780812233797

Contents include: 1. Versions of the Moment -- 2. Lahontan and the Moment Between Cultures -- 3. Diderot and the Epicurean Moment -- 4. Graffigny's Epiphany of the Moment -- 5. Rousseau's Moment Beyond History -- 6. Casanova and the Moment of Chance -- 7. Roger de Piles and the Moment's Glance -- 8. Du Bos, Poussin, and the Force of the Moment -- 9. Watteau's Incarnate Moment -- 10. Chardin and the Moment Beyond Nature -- 11. Boucher, Fragonard, and the Seductions of the Moment -- 12. Greuze and the Moment Foreclosed.

OCLC: 35262250

Price: $30.00

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