LEADER 04065nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910452698403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-89713-X 010 $a0-8122-0512-X 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812205121 035 $a(CKB)2550000000707654 035 $a(OCoLC)805444135 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10642648 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000703503 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11475510 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000703503 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10690647 035 $a(PQKB)10246943 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441896 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse19911 035 $a(DE-B1597)449455 035 $a(OCoLC)979748543 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812205121 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441896 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10642648 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL420963 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000707654 100 $a20110616d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe bad taste of others$b[electronic resource] $ejudging literary value in eighteenth-century France /$fJennifer Tsien 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (275 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-4359-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction -- $tChapter one. Too Many Books -- $tChapter Two. What Is Good Taste? -- $tChapter Three. The Barbaric, or Of Time and Taste -- $tChapter Four. On Foreign Taste -- $tChapter Five. The Obscure, or Enigmas and the Enigmatic -- $tChapter Six. The Disorderly -- $tConclusion -- $tNotes -- $tWorks Cited -- $tIndex -- $tAcknowledgments 330 $aAn 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. 606 $aFrench literature$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAesthetics, French$y18th century 606 $aCulture in literature 606 $aCivilization in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aFrench literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAesthetics, French 615 0$aCulture in literature. 615 0$aCivilization in literature. 676 $a840.9/005 700 $aTsien$b Jennifer Shianling$f1971-$0442378 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452698403321 996 $aThe bad taste of others$92486102 997 $aUNINA