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Dreams of Happiness: Social Art and the French Left, 1830-1850
By (Author) Neil McWilliam
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
30th May 2017
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
709.4409034
Hardback
400
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
482g
Responding to the decline of the monarchy and the church in post-revolutionary France, theorists representing a wide spectrum of leftist ideologies proposed comprehensive blueprints for society that assigned a crucial role to aesthetics. In this full-length investigation of social romanticism, Neil McWilliam explores the profound impact of radical