Thomas M. Kavanagh is Professor of French at Yale University. Among his previous books is Dice, Cards, Wheels: A Different History of French Culture, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
3 Ebooks by Thomas M. Kavanagh
Thomas M. Kavanagh: Esthetics of the Moment
The literature and art of the French Enlightenment is everywhere marked by an intense awareness of the moment. The parallel projects of living in, representing, and learning from the moment run throu …
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Thomas M. Kavanagh: Dice, Cards, Wheels
Gambling has been a practice central to many cultures throughout history. In Dice, Cards, Wheels, Thomas M. Kavanagh scrutinizes the changing face of the gambler in France over a period of eight cent …
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Kavanagh Thomas M. Kavanagh: Enlightened Pleasures
Novelists, artists, and philosophers of the eighteenth century understood pleasure as a virtue—a gift to be shared with one’s companion, with a reader, or with the public. In this daring …
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