This book analyses the use of the crucial concept of 'taste' in the
works of five major seventeenth-century French authors, Mere, Saint
Evremond, La Rochefoucauld, La Bruyere and Boileau. It combines
close readings of important texts with a thoroughgoing political
analysis of seventeenth-century French society in terms of class
and gender. Dr Moriarty shows that far from being timeless and
universal, the term 'taste' is culture-specific, shifting according
to the needs of a writer and his social group. The notion of
'taste' not only helped to shape a new dominant culture, but also
registered the conflicts within that culture between a view of
taste that presupposted the values of 'polite society' as an
exclusive (though not necessarily aristocratic) group, and a view
that stressed the value of the classical-humanist tradition as a
source of standards ratified by a broader public. this study sheds
light not only on the central concept, but also on the individual
authors discussed and on the norms of French classical literature
in general.
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