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Enchanted islands :

022648310X

9780226483108

9780226483245

Enchanted islands :

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picturing the allure of conquest in eighteenth-century France /

Mary D. Sheriff.

Chicago, IL :

The University of Chicago Press,

2018.

©2018

xiii, 279 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates :

illustrations (some color) ;

24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-268) and index.

Introduction : called to islands -- Thinking with islands -- Domains of enchantment -- Royal power, national sentiment, and the sorceress undone -- Calypso in the regency -- The transformations of Armida -- On the persistence and limits of the enchanted island.

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In 'Enchanted Islands', art historian Mary D. Sheriff explores the legendary, fictional, and real islands that filled the French imagination during the ancien régime as they appeared in royal ballets and festivals, epic literature, paintings, engravings, book illustrations, and other objects. Some of the islands were mythical and found in the most popular literary texts of the day. Islands featured prominently, for instance, in Ariostos Orlando furioso, Tassos Gerusalemme liberata, and Fenelons, Telemachus. Other islands--real ones, such as Tahiti and St. Domingue--the French learned about from the writings of travelers and colonists. All of them were imagined to be the home of enchantresses who used magic to conquer heroes by promising sensual and sexual pleasure.

Art, French-- 18th century.

French literature-- 18th century-- History and criticism.

Islands in art.

Islands in literature.

18.25 French literature.

Art, French.

Das Idyllische

Französisch

French literature.

Insel

Islands in art.

Islands in literature.

Kunst

Künste

Liebespaar

Literatur

Verzauberung

Frankreich

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