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02412aam a2200349 i 4500 001 DBC4E0DAE19111E89124B82197128E48 003 SILO 005 20181106010116 008 170810t20182018iluaf b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2017038265 020 $a 022648310X 020 $a 9780226483108 035 $a (OCoLC)1002418363 040 $a ICU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c CGU $d DLC $d BDX $d YDX $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d ERASA $d YDX $d OCLCO $d OBE $d WLU $d MNU $d COO $d IAY $d WTU $d CGU $d FSJ $d PAU $d TEU $d YUS $d UX0 $d GZM $d OCLCQ $d UPM $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PQ265 S58 2018 100 1 $a Sheriff, Mary D., $e author. 245 10 $a Enchanted islands : $b picturing the allure of conquest in eighteenth-century France / $c Mary D. Sheriff. 264 1 $a Chicago, IL : $b The University of Chicago Press, $c 2018. 300 $a xiii, 279 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations (some color) ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-268) and index. 505 0 $a 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. 520 8 $a 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. 650 0 $a Islands in literature. 650 0 $a Islands in art. 650 0 $a French literature $y 18th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Art, French $y 18th century. 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210707011837.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20190212012008.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DBC4E0DAE19111E89124B82197128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search