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Overview"This discourse depicts the rise in the `8th century of ""luxe"" as an escape from ennui and shows how, for the first time in European history, a large class of wealthy, leisured people emerged to make art, luxury and the avoidance of boredom its preoccupation." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Rémy G. SaisselinPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Volume: 32 Dimensions: Width: 12.70cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 20.30cm Weight: 0.181kg ISBN: 9780520414341ISBN 10: 0520414349 Pages: 166 Publication Date: 04 June 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationRémy G. Saisselin was Professor of Humanities at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and Professor of French Literature at the University of Rochester. He is the author of The Bourgeois and the Bibelot and The Literary Enterprise in Eighteenth-Century France. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |