01999nam 2200409 450 991015017890332120230808200457.01-63409-794-7(CKB)3710000000939354(MiAaPQ)EBC4733221(EXLCZ)99371000000093935420161117h20162016 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe pattern artist /Nancy Moser[Uhrichsville, Ohio] :Shiloh Run Press,2016.©20161 online resource (322 pages)1-63409-792-0 "Born into a life of hard work, English housemaid Annie Wood arrives in New York City in 1911 with her wealthy mistress. Wide-eyed with the possibilities America has to offer, Annie wonders if there's more for her than a life of service. Annie chooses to risk everything, taps into courage she never knew she had, and goes off on her own, finding employment in the sewing department at Macy's department store. While at Macy's Annie catches the eye of a salesman at the Butterick Pattern Company. Through determination, hard work, and God's leading, Annie discovers a hidden gift: she is a talented fashion designer -- a pattern artist of the highest degree. As she runs from ghosts of the past and focuses on the future, Annie enters a creative world that takes her to the fashion houses of Paris and into a life of adventure, purpose, and love." -- Back cover.Christian fictionHistory and criticismNew York (N.Y.)FictionNew York (State)New YorkfastChristian fictionHistory and criticism.809.393823FIC042040bisacshMoser Nancy1246922MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910150178903321The pattern artist2890934UNINA04068nam 2200697 a 450 991077947380332120230121001756.01-283-89713-X0-8122-0512-X10.9783/9780812205121(CKB)2550000000707654(OCoLC)805444135(CaPaEBR)ebrary10642648(SSID)ssj0000703503(PQKBManifestationID)11475510(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000703503(PQKBWorkID)10690647(PQKB)10246943(MdBmJHUP)muse19911(DE-B1597)449455(OCoLC)979748543(DE-B1597)9780812205121(Au-PeEL)EBL3441896(CaPaEBR)ebr10642648(CaONFJC)MIL420963(MiAaPQ)EBC3441896(EXLCZ)99255000000070765420110616d2012 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe bad taste of others[electronic resource] judging literary value in eighteenth-century France /Jennifer Tsien1st ed.Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Pressc20121 online resource (275 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8122-4359-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter --Contents --Introduction --Chapter one. Too Many Books --Chapter Two. What Is Good Taste? --Chapter Three. The Barbaric, or Of Time and Taste --Chapter Four. On Foreign Taste --Chapter Five. The Obscure, or Enigmas and the Enigmatic --Chapter Six. The Disorderly --Conclusion --Notes --Works Cited --Index --AcknowledgmentsAn act of bad taste was more than a faux pas to French philosophers of the Enlightenment. To Montesquieu, Voltaire, Diderot, and others, bad taste in the arts could be a sign of the decline of a civilization. These intellectuals, faced with the potential chaos of an expanding literary market, created seals of disapproval in order to shape the literary and cultural heritage of France in their image. In The Bad Taste of Others Jennifer Tsien examines the power of ridicule and exclusion to shape the period's aesthetics.Tsien reveals how the philosophes consecrated themselves as the protectors of true French culture modeled on the classical, the rational, and the orderly. Their anxiety over the invasion of the Republic of Letters by hordes of hacks caused them to devise standards that justified the marginalization of worldy women, "barbarians," and plebeians. While critics avoided strict definitions of good taste, they wielded the term "bad taste" against all popular works they wished to erase from the canon of French literature, including Renaissance poetry, biblical drama, the burlesque theater of the previous century, the essays of Montaigne, and genres associated with the so-called précieuses. Tsien's study draws attention to long-disregarded works of salon culture, such as the énigmes, and offers a new perspective on the critical legacy of Voltaire. The philosophes' open disdain for the undiscerning reading public challenges the belief that the rise of aesthetics went hand in hand with Enlightenment ideas of equality and relativism.French literature18th centuryHistory and criticismAesthetics, French18th centuryCulture in literatureCivilization in literatureCultural Studies.Literature.French literatureHistory and criticism.Aesthetics, FrenchCulture in literature.Civilization in literature.840.9/005Tsien Jennifer1971-442378MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910779473803321The bad taste of others3712083UNINA