{"product_id":"morality-and-social-class-in-eighteenthcentury-french-literature-and-painting-9781487581312","title":"Morality and Social Class in EighteenthCentury French Literature and Painting","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe moralistic tendencies that culminated in the Republic of Virtue can be traced in literature back to the late seventeenth century. In the 1690s two separate and antithetical moralities began to take shape, one erotic and libertine, the other highly moralistic. Both represented a revolt against the formalism of the seventeenth century. The \u003cem\u003eroman \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eérotique\u003c\/em\u003e was rooted in a hedonistic philosophy whose objective was to enlarge the scope of freedom, translated in sexual terms, while the moralistic literature, also influenced by philosophical hedonism, was sentimental, romantic, and defended the Christian idea of love and marriage. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoberts discards some of the common presuppositions of historical and literary criticism, for example, that the literature of sensibility was the reaction of the bourgeoisie against the degenerate aristocracy, and that the libertine literature was created by and accurately portrayed the aristocracy. Such explanations have never been su\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53187730866519,"sku":"9781487581312","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/morality-and-social-class-in-eighteenthcentury-french-literature-and-painting-9781487581312","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}