No tomorrow
Subtitle: the ethics of pleasure in the French Enlightenment
By: Catherine Cusset.
Publisher: University Press of Virginia
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: French fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism.; Pleasure in literature.
Description: "Catherine Cusset's No Tomorrow traces the moral meaning of pleasure in several libertine works of the eighteenth century - Watteau's Pelerinage a l'ile de Cythere, Prevost's Manon Lescaut, Crebillon's Les Egarements du coeur et de l'esprit, the anonymous pornographic novel Therese philosophe, Diderot's La Religieuse, and Vivant Denon's short story "Point de lendemain.""--BOOK JACKET.

"Cusset's analysis suggests that libertine novels offered the eighteenth century a more complex picture of moral being and ultimately contributed a lesson of tolerance to the Enlightenment."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-201) and index.