The essays in this 1987 volume are concerned with ideas of
contrarity and other kinds of polar opposition in French literature
of the eighteenth century. Originally these ideas were merely part
of an impulse to undermine the establishment, but as the century
progressed the desire to invert social values and question accepted
norms merged with the main groundswell of the age to form part of
the movement of Revolution. Professor Rex considers some of the
major writers of the period: Diderot, Rousseau, Voltaire, and
Beaumarchais. He also explores minor genres such as operas
comiques, theatrical parodies, and erotic or pornographic pieces;
these have been largely forgotten, but in their time they imbued
the creative life of the era with vitality. In treating the
literature in relation to the other arts, especially painting and
music, these essays will be of interest to scholars of all aspects
of eighteenth-century French culture.
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