The eighteenth-century luxury debate: the case of Voltaire

<p>Voltaire's role in the luxury debate, the controversy about civilisation, capitalism, and progress which accompanied the birth of modern consumer society in the eighteenth century, is generally limited to his <em>Mondain</em> and its <em>Défense</em>, and reduce...

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Main Author: Gottmann, F
Other Authors: Mallinson, G
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2011
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