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The would-be author : Molière and the comedy of print
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ISBN: 1612493858 9781612493855 9781557537089 1557537089 Year: 2015 Publisher: West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press,

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This book is the first full-length study to examine Molière's evolving (and at times contradictory) authorial strategies, as evidenced both by his portrayal of authors and publication within the plays and by his own interactions with the seventeenth-century Parisian publishing industry. Historians of the book have described the time period that coincides with Molière's theatrical activity as centrally important to the development of authors' rights and to the professionalization of the literary field. A seventeenth-century author, however, was not so much born as negotiated through often acrim


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The Would-Be Author : Molière and the Comedy of Print
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ISBN: 1612493866 Year: 2015 Publisher: Ashland : Purdue University Press,

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This book is the first full-length study to examine Molière's evolving (and at times contradictory) authorial strategies, as evidenced both by his portrayal of authors and publication within the plays and by his own interactions with the seventeenth-century Parisian publishing industry. Historians of the book have described the time period that coincides with Molière's theatrical activity as centrally important to the development of authors' rights and to the professionalization of the literary field. A seventeenth-century author, however, was not so much born as negotiated through often acrim


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Enchantement et désillusion en France au XVIIe siècle
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Back to the garden: Chateaubriand, Senancour and Constant
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ISBN: 0915838680 Year: 1988 Publisher: Saratoga (Calif.) Anma Libri

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Claude Monet, free thinker : radical republicanism, darwin's science, and the evolution of impressionist aesthetics
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ISBN: 9781433130809 9781453915943 Year: 2015 Publisher: Frankfurt am Main [etc.] Peter Lang


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Claude Monet, Free Thinker : Radical Republicanism, Darwin’s Science, and the Evolution of Impressionist Aesthetics
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ISBN: 9781453915943 Year: 2015 Publisher: New York Washington Bern Peter Lang

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This revolutionary interdisciplinary study argues that Monet’s artistic practices and choices were the direct result of his political stance as a nineteenth-century libre penseur, a position characterized by radical republicanism, a progressive social agenda, and fierce anticlericalism. His efforts to create a style reflecting his personal political code led him to produce paintings proclaimed by like-minded free thinkers as «a science being constantly perfected» (Gustave Geffroy), that is, emphasizing only observable phenomena in the immediate present through scrupulous, insistent on-site observation, capturing the raw data of sensations and sensory experience, and purporting to record a world free of embedded meaning. Darwin’s world similarly comes with no prepackaged reassurance of humankind’s privileged place in it; it is instead a space in which all varieties of organisms and species compete for limited resources in a struggle for survival. The Darwinian model of nature appears to have influenced Monet’s artistic production increasingly as his style evolved over several decades. In opposition to post-Renaissance art that privileged the human presence in both representation and the viewing act, Monet’s later paintings create a sense of virtual and visual equality among all observable phenomena. The human – and the viewer, by extension – is thus represented as neither separate from nature as a disengaged observer nor superior to it but rather co-equal with all other organic life forms surrounding it. This approach, while echoing Darwin’s admiration of nature and its laws, also reminds humankind of its own fragility and the hard choices it must make to avoid extinction.

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Pleasure and Leisure in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age : Cultural-Historical Perspectives on Toys, Games, and Entertainment

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