It takes the average reader 4 hours and 40 minutes to read The Bad Taste of Others by Jennifer Tsien
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
An act of bad taste was more than a faux pas to French philosophers of the Enlightenment. To Montesquieu, Voltaire, Diderot, and others, bad taste in the arts could be a sign of the decline of a civilization. These intellectuals, faced with the potential chaos of an expanding literary market, created seals of disapproval in order to shape the literary and cultural heritage of France in their image. In The Bad Taste of Others Jennifer Tsien examines the power of ridicule and exclusion to shape the period's aesthetics. Tsien reveals how the philosophes consecrated themselves as the protectors...
The Bad Taste of Others by Jennifer Tsien is 280 pages long, and a total of 70,000 words.
This makes it 94% the length of the average book. It also has 86% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 22 minutes to read The Bad Taste of Others aloud.
The Bad Taste of Others is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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