Rococo fiction in France, 1600-1715
Subtitle: seditious frivolity
By: Allison Stedman
Series: Transits: literature, thought & culture 1650-1850
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9781611484366; 9781611484373
Subjects: History and criticism; French fiction
Description: Rococo Fiction in France, 1600-1715: Seditious Frivolity by Allison Stedman, PhD makes a case for the Rococo as a seventeenth-century literary phenomenon that provided an aesthetic and ideological counterpoint to the emergence of the classical-baroque style and the rise of French political absolutism. Tracing the rococo's evolution over the course the seventeenth-century, and exploring its radicalization during the 1670s, 80s and 90s, the study unearths the Rococo's counter-vision for the origins and trajectory of the French Enlightenment.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Innovation in early seventeenth-century France; title: The origins of the rococo; title: The rococo and the transfiguration of the old-regime social sphere; title: The rococo and the transfiguration of the salon.