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- catalog abstract "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." 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.".
- catalog contributor b11137602.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description "1. 1717 -- Cythere, or Ambiguity -- 2. 1731 -- Manon, or Pleasure -- 3. 1736-1738 -- Mme de Lursay, or Vanity -- 4. 1748 -- Therese, or Reason -- 5. 1760 -- Suzanne, or Liberty -- 6. 1777 -- Mme de T --, or Decency.".
- catalog 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." 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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-201) and index.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 208 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "081391860X (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia,".
- catalog subject "843/.509353 21".
- catalog subject "French fiction 18th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PQ618 .C87 1999".
- catalog subject "Pleasure in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. 1717 -- Cythere, or Ambiguity -- 2. 1731 -- Manon, or Pleasure -- 3. 1736-1738 -- Mme de Lursay, or Vanity -- 4. 1748 -- Therese, or Reason -- 5. 1760 -- Suzanne, or Liberty -- 6. 1777 -- Mme de T --, or Decency.".
- catalog title "No tomorrow : the ethics of pleasure in the French Enlightenment / Catherine Cusset.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".