Author: Cusset, Catherine
Title: No Tomorrow: The Ethics of Pleasure in the French Enlightenment
Description: Charlottesville [VA], University Press of Virginia, 1999. orig.cloth. 24x15cm, xiv,208 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ This work traces the moral meaning of pleasure in libertine works of 18th-century France. The author contends that libertine works are linked by an " ethics of pleasure" that teaches readers that vanity and sensual enjoyment are part of their moral being" - Publisher's description.

Keywords: French Literary History, Criticism, Enlightenment, Pleasure, Fiction, Eighteenth Century, , ,