Enlightened Pleasures: Eighteenth-Century France and the New Epicureanism (Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Studies) (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History)

by Thomas M. Kavanagh (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2010

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  Novelists, artists, and philosophers of the eighteenth century understood pleasure as a virtue - a gift to be shared with one's companion, with a reader, or with the public. This book overturns the prevailing scholarly tradition that views eighteenth-century France primarily as the incubator of the Revolution.