L’invention du mauvais goût à l’âge classique (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècle)

Edited by C. Barbafieri Edited by J.-C. Abramovici

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Extent: 450 pages

Publisher: Peeters Publishers

Subjects: Communications, Film, & Media Studies, Literary Studies

Series: République des Lettres

Series volume number: 51

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(February 2013)

ISBN: 9789042926271

Price: $69.00

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The idea of bad taste emerged concomitantly with good taste, finding expression outside the kitchen in letters and arts from the 1630s. This volume seeks to trace out the concept as it emerged during the Modern period through literature, gastronomy and cultural habits.


English summary: The idea of bad taste emerged concomitantly with good taste, finding expression outside the kitchen in letters and arts from the 1630s. This volume seeks to trace out the concept as it emerged during the Modern period through literature, gastronomy and cultural habits. French description: L’histoire de la categorie du mauvais gout suit de tres pres celle du (bon) gout : des la fin du XVIe siecle, l’expression commenca … etre utilisee en dehors du domaine culinaire, pour etre appliquee aux lettres et aux arts dans les annees 1630, puis etre theorisee au debut du siecle suivant. Au croisement des histoires de la litterature, de la gastronomie et des habitudes culturelles, le present volume s’efforce de tracer les contours de ces mauvais objets que l’on rejeta au fil des siecles et des discours qui tous, par defaut, illustrent la relativite du Beau et du Vrai.

  • Edited by C. Barbafieri
  • Edited by J.-C. Abramovici