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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462245703321

Autore

Stedman Allison <1974->

Titolo

Rococo fiction in France, 1600-1715 [[electronic resource] ] : seditious frivolity / / Allison Stedman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : Bucknell University Press, c2012

ISBN

1-283-73349-8

1-61148-437-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (243 p.)

Collana

Transits: literature, thought & culture 1650-1850

Disciplina

843/.409

Soggetti

French fiction - 17th century - History and criticism

Literature and society - France - History - 17th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; A NOTE ON TRANSLATIONS; INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1. INNOVATION IN EARLY SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE; Chapter 2. THE ORIGINS OF THE ROCOCO; Chapter 3. THE ROCOCO AND THE TRANSFIGURATION OF THE OLD-REGIME SOCIAL SPHERE; Chapter 4. THE ROCOCO AND THE TRANSFIGURATION OF THE SALON; CONCLUSION; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sommario/riassunto

Rococo Fiction in France, 1600-1715: Seditious Frivolity by Allison Stedman, PhD makes a case for the rococo as a seventeenth-century literary phenomenon that provided an aesthetic and ideological counterpoint to the emergence of the classical-baroque style and the rise of French political absolutism. Tracing the rococo's evolution over the course the seventeenth-century, and exploring its radicalization during the 1670s, 80s and 90s, the study unearths the rococo's counter-vision for the origins and trajectory