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Moved By Love : Inspired Artists and Deviant Women in Eighteenth-Century France
Moved By Love Inspired Artists and Deviant Women in EighteenthCentury France
Author: Mary D. Sheriff
In eighteenth-century France, the ability to lose oneself in a character or scene marked both great artists and ideal spectators. Yet it was thought this same passionate enthusiasm, if taken to unreasonable extremes, could also lead to sexual deviance, mental illness--even death. Women and artists were seen as especially susceptible to these neg...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226752877
ISBN-10: 0226752879
Publication Date: 1/15/2004
Pages: 320
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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