Scenarios of the imaginary : theorizing the French enlightenment / Josué V. Harari
1987, 1st edition. Ithaca : Cornell University Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #426411
ISBN: 0801418429
Physical description; 240 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes indexes. Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-234). Contents; Introduction -- Transcoding -- Eclectic affinities -- Eunuch's tale -- Man born of man -- Staging the libertine imaginary I: theoretical scenario -- Staging the libertine imaginary II: personal and fictional scenarios -- "You are requested to close the eyes" : out of the barbershop, into the Académie Française -- Postscript: anguish. Subjects; 1700-1799. French literature 18th century History and criticism Theory, etc. Enlightenment France. Criticism France History 18th century. Enlightenment. Intellectual life. Enlightenment (18th-century western movement). Criticism.
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