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Author:

Sheriff, Mary D., author.

Title:

Enchanted islands : picturing the allure of conquest in eighteenth-century France / Mary D. Sheriff.

Publisher:

The University of Chicago Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xiii, 279 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Subject:

Islands in literature.
Islands in art.
French literature--18th century--History and criticism.
Art, French--18th century.

Notes:

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

Contents:

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.

Summary:

In 'Enchanted Islands', art historian Mary D. Sheriff explores the legendary, fictional, and real islands that filled the French imagination during the ancien regime 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 dayislands featured prominently, for instance, in Ariostos Orlando furioso, Tassos Gerusalemme liberata, and Fenelons, Telemachus. Other islandsreal ones, such as Tahiti and St. Dominguethe 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.

ISBN:

022648310X
9780226483108

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1002418363

LCCN:

2017038265

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)