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No tomorrow : the ethics of pleasure in the French Enlightenment by Cusset, Catherine is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
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Winner of the 1996 Walker Cowen Memorial Prize, Catherine Cusset's No Tomorrow traces the moral meaning of pleasure in several libertine works of the eighteenth-century--Watteau's Pélerinage à l'île de Cythère, Prévost's Manon Lescaut, Crébillon's Les égarements du coeur et de l'esprit, the anonymous pornographic novel Thérèse philosophe, Diderot's La religieuse, and Vivant Denon's short story "Point de lendemain." In this ambitious book, Cusset reframes the often misunderstood genre that celebr
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- Author
- Cusset, Catherine
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780813938837
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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