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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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The Literary World
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Enchanted Islands
Author: Mary D. Sheriff
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022648324X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
In Enchanted Islands, renowned 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 day—islands featured prominently, for instance, in Ariosto’s Orlando furioso,Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata, and Fénelon’s, 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. As Sheriff shows, the theme of the enchanted island was put to many uses. Kings deployed enchanted-island mythology to strengthen monarchical authority, as Louis XIV did in his famous Versailles festival Les Plaisirs de l’île enchantée. Writers such as Fénelon used it to tell morality tales that taught virtue, duty, and the need for male strength to triumph over female weakness and seduction. Yet at the same time, artists like Boucher painted enchanted islands to portray art’s purpose as the giving of pleasure. In all these ways and more, Sheriff demonstrates for the first time the centrality of enchanted islands to ancient regime culture in a book that will enchant all readers interested in the art, literature, and history of the time.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022648324X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
In Enchanted Islands, renowned 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 day—islands featured prominently, for instance, in Ariosto’s Orlando furioso,Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata, and Fénelon’s, 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. As Sheriff shows, the theme of the enchanted island was put to many uses. Kings deployed enchanted-island mythology to strengthen monarchical authority, as Louis XIV did in his famous Versailles festival Les Plaisirs de l’île enchantée. Writers such as Fénelon used it to tell morality tales that taught virtue, duty, and the need for male strength to triumph over female weakness and seduction. Yet at the same time, artists like Boucher painted enchanted islands to portray art’s purpose as the giving of pleasure. In all these ways and more, Sheriff demonstrates for the first time the centrality of enchanted islands to ancient regime culture in a book that will enchant all readers interested in the art, literature, and history of the time.
Legislative Documents
Author: Iowa
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Category : Iowa
Languages : en
Pages : 1070
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Contains the reports of state departments and officials for the preceding fiscal biennium.
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Category : Iowa
Languages : en
Pages : 1070
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Contains the reports of state departments and officials for the preceding fiscal biennium.
Biennial Report
Author: State Library of Iowa
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Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Languages : en
Pages : 208
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The Library of Entertainment
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Legislative Documents Submitted to the ... General Assembly of the State of Iowa
Author: Iowa. General Assembly
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Category : Iowa
Languages : en
Pages : 1070
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Category : Iowa
Languages : en
Pages : 1070
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The Home Library of Entertainment, Instruction and Amusement
Author: Thomas Sheppard Meek
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Category : Amusements
Languages : en
Pages : 636
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Category : Amusements
Languages : en
Pages : 636
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Vic Knight's Florida
Author: Knight, Victor M.
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781455613595
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Experience the real history of the Sunshine State as told with the wit and wisdom of a 10th-generation native son.
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781455613595
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Experience the real history of the Sunshine State as told with the wit and wisdom of a 10th-generation native son.
Report of the State Librarian to the ... General Assembly
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Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Tampa Bay Magazine
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Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Tampa Bay Magazine is the area's lifestyle magazine. For over 25 years it has been featuring the places, people and pleasures of Tampa Bay Florida, that includes Tampa, Clearwater and St. Petersburg. You won't know Tampa Bay until you read Tampa Bay Magazine.
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Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Tampa Bay Magazine is the area's lifestyle magazine. For over 25 years it has been featuring the places, people and pleasures of Tampa Bay Florida, that includes Tampa, Clearwater and St. Petersburg. You won't know Tampa Bay until you read Tampa Bay Magazine.