Styles of Enlightenment : taste, politics and authorship in eighteenth-century France / Elena Russo.
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2007.
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue : Boudoir and Tribune
- 1. A faded coquette : Marivaux and the philosophes
- 2. Fakes, impostors, and Beaux Esprits : conversation's backstage
- 3. The sly and the coy mistress : style and manner from Fenelon to Diderot
- 4. Capturing fireside conversation : Diderot and Marivaux's stylistic challenge
- 5. Grace and the epistemology of confused perception
- 6. Between Paris and Rome : Montesquieu's poetry of history
- 7. Montesquieu for the masses, or implanting false memory
- 8. Everlasting theatricality : Arlequin and the untamed Parterre
- Epilogue : the costume of modernity.
