Esthetics of the moment literature and art in the French Enlightenment
The literature and art of the French Enlightenment is everywhere marked by an intense awareness of the moment. The parallel projects of living in, representing, and learning from the moment run through the Enlightenment's endeavors as tokens of an ambition and a heritage imposing its only and u...
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Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania Press
2015, ©1996
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| Collection: | DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One: Writing the Moment
- 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
- Part Two: Painting the Moment
- 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
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index