Caroline Elisabeth Weber
Biographic Data
| ID | 10858861 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Caroline Elisabeth Weber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Caroline Elisabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Weber |
| SIGNATURE | WEBER C E |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6772-7410 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
On the Hardness of Virtue, or Fetishizing Disinterest in Beaumarchais' Les Deux amis
An exploration of the self-delusional structures in Beaumarchais's bourgeois drama Les Deux amis, that support the iniquities engendered by commerce in mid-eighteenth-century Lyon. At the dawn of capitalistic enterprise, the protagonist of the drame bourgeois suspends knowledge of his own rapaciousness by emphatically cultivating a stance of selfless virtue as he pursues his commercial interests. It is the paradox of the genre that the very attem…
Overcoming Excess
MLN - Volume 114, Number 4, September 1999 (French Issue)
Writing/Drawing/Color
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Writing/Drawing/Color
Overcoming Excess
MLN - Volume 114, Number 4, September 1999 (French Issue)
On the Hardness of Virtue, or Fetishizing Disinterest in Beaumarchais' Les Deux amis
An exploration of the self-delusional structures in Beaumarchais's bourgeois drama Les Deux amis, that support the iniquities engendered by commerce in mid-eighteenth-century Lyon. At the dawn of capitalistic enterprise, the protagonist of the drame bourgeois suspends knowledge of his own rapaciousness by emphatically cultivating a stance of selfless virtue as he pursues his commercial interests. It is the paradox of the genre that the very attem…
Art (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Bourgeoisie (2 works) · Historical and Literary Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Color perception and design (1 work) · Drama (1 work)