No Tomorrow
The Ethics of Pleasure in the French Enlightenment
Winner of the 1996 Walker Cowen Memorial Prize, Catherine Cusset's No Tomorrow traces the moral meaning of pleasure in several libertine works of the eighteenth-century-Watteau's Pélerinage à l'île de Cythère, Prévost's Manon Lescaut, Crébillon's Les égarements du coeur et de l'esprit, the anonymous pornographic novel Thérèse philosophe, Diderot's La religieuse, and Vivant Denon's short story Point de lendemain. In this ambitious book, Cusset reframes the often misunderstood genre that celebrates what Casanova calls the present enjoyment of the senses. She contends libertine works are not, as is commonly thought, characterized by t…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8139-3883-7
- EAN: 9780813938837
- Produktnummer: 19584781
- Verlag: University of Virginia Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.3 cm 351 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 351
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