Moved by love : inspired artists and deviant women in eighteenth-century France / Mary 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 w...

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Main Author: Sheriff, Mary D.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.
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