Taste and Ideology in Seventeenth-Century France (Paperback)

Preface; 1. 'Taste' and history; 2. Defining go?t: the dictionaries; 3. Mere: taste and the ideology of honn?tete; 4. Saint Evremond: taste and cultural hegemony; 5. La Rochefoucauld: tastes and their vicissitudes; 6. La Bruyere: taste-discourse and the absent subject; 7. Boileau: taste and the institution of 'literature'; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.