![]() ![]() This discursive heritage also informed the reception of Rousseau's ideas in the next century under different circumstances. His discursive appropriation within this mid-century environment explains the shape of his reforms and how his ideas could be attractive not only to male detractors of feminine taste, but also to eighteenth-century Frenchwomen. By shifting feminine taste's site and purview into the domestic realm, he further undercut the honnĂȘte vision and refocused the discussion. He thus contributed to an ongoing discursive evolution away from the honnĂȘte understanding of women's taste which he both inherited and altered. Beyond this immediate context, though, Rousseau was intervening in a long-running debate about feminine taste. ![]() Clearly, Rousseau intended his comments, which were embedded within a complex, anxious, mid-century cultural context, to be reformist. This article seeks to better historicize Jean-Jacques Rousseau's discussion of women's taste in Emile (1762). ![]()
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