Enlightened Pleasures - Eighteenth-Century France and the New Epicureanism : Eighteenth-Century France and the New Epicureanism

"Novelists, artists, and philosophers of the eighteenth century understood pleasure as a virtue - a gift to be shared with one's companion, with a reader, or with the public. In this daring new book, Thomas Kavanagh overturns the prevailing scholarly tradition that views eighteenth-century France primarily as the incubator of the Revolution. Instea