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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 negative consequences of creative enthusiasm, and women artists, doubly so. Mary D. Sheriff uses these very different visions of enthusiasm to explore the complex interrelationships among creativity, sexuality, the body and the mind in eighteenth-century France. Drawing on evidence from the visual arts, literature, philosophy, and medicine, she portrays the deviance ascribed to both inspired men and women. But while various mythologies worked to normalize deviance in male artists, women had no justification for their deviance. For instance, the mythical sculptor Pygmalion was cured of an abnormal love for his statue through the making of art. He became a model for creative artists, living happily with his statue come to life. No happy endings, though, were imagined for such inspired women writers as Sappho and Heloise, who burned with erotomania their art could not quench. Even so, Sheriff demonstrates, the perceived connections among sexuality, creativity, and disease also opened artistic opportunities for creative women took full advantage of them. Brilliantly reassessing the links between sexuality and creativity, artistic genius and madness, passion and reason, Moved by Love will profoundly reshape our view of eighteenth- century French culture.

Arts, French --- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Pygmalion (Greek mythology) --- Mythology, Greek --- Creative ability in art --- Creative ability in literature --- Art --- Imagination --- Inspiration --- Literature --- Creative ability --- Originality --- French arts --- Themes, motives. --- History --- Héloïse, --- Pygmalion --- Ėloiza, --- Eloisa, --- Heloísa, --- Pigmalione --- History of civilization --- inspiration --- anno 1700-1799 --- France --- Pygmalion (Greek mythology). --- Héloïse --- Arts [French ] --- 18th century --- Themes, motives

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architectuur --- openbare gebouwen --- Architecture --- Museum architecture --- Museum buildings --- Museums --- Religious architecture --- Architecture des musées --- Musées (Edifices) --- Musées --- Designs and plans --- Remodeling for other use --- Dessins et plans --- Musée de la photographie (Charleroi, Belgium) --- Photographie --- Musée --- Bastin, Olivier --- Astudillo, Eloisa --- L'Escaut --- Charleroi --- Architecture des musées --- Musées (Edifices) --- Musées --- Musée de la photographie (Charleroi, Belgium) --- Designs and plans. --- CHARLEROI (BELGIQUE) --- CONSTRUCTIONS --- MUSEES --- PHOTOGRAPHIE --- REFECTION --- BELGIQUE --- architecture [discipline] --- museums [buildings] --- Museum of Photographie [Charleroi] --- Musées (constructions) --- Architecture chrétienne --- Reconversion (architecture). --- L'Escaut (Bruxelles) --- Musée de la photographie (Charleroi, Belgique) --- Constructions.

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Nine hundred years ago in Paris, a teacher and his brilliant female student fell in love and chronicled their affair in a passionate correspondence. Their 116 surviving letters, some whole and some fragmentary, are composed in eloquent, highly rhetorical Latin. Since their discovery in the late twentieth century, the Letters of Two Lovers have aroused much attention because of their extreme rarity. They constitute the longest correspondence by far between any two persons from the entire Middle Ages, and they are private rather than institutional-which means that, according to all we know about the transmission of medieval letters, they should not have survived at all. Adding to their mystery, the letters are copied anonymously in a single late fifteenth-century manuscript, although their style and range of reference place them squarely in the early twelfth century.Can this collection of correspondence be the previously lost love letters of Abelard and Heloise? And even if not, what does it tell us about the lived experience of love in the twelfth century?Barbara Newman contends that these teacher-student exchanges bear witness to a culture that linked Latin pedagogy with the practice of ennobling love and the cult of friendship during a relatively brief period when women played an active part in that world. Newman presents a new translation of these extraordinary letters, along with a full commentary and two extended essays that parse their literary and intellectual contexts and chart the course of the doomed affair. Included, too, are two other sets of twelfth-century love epistles, the Tegernsee Letters and selections from the Regensburg Songs. Taken together, they constitute a stunning contribution to the study of the history of emotions by one of our most prominent medievalists.

Love-letters --- Latin letters, Medieval and modern --- Letter writing --- Love --- 392.6 "04/14" --- Affection --- Emotions --- First loves --- Friendship --- Intimacy (Psychology) --- Correspondence --- English letter writing --- Letter writing, English --- Writing of letters --- Authorship --- Letters --- Erotic literature --- Courtship --- History --- History and criticism. --- Seksualiteit. Seksueel leven. Concubinaat. Samenwonen. Prostitutie. Erotiek. Seksuele gebruiken. Liefdeskunst--Middeleeuwen --- Abelard, Peter, --- Héloïse, --- Ėloiza, --- Eloisa, --- Heloísa, --- Abaelard, Peter, --- Abaelardi, Petri, --- Abaelardus, --- Abaelardus, Petrus, --- Abailard, Peter, --- Abailard, Pierre, --- Abailardus, Petrus, --- Abeilard, Pierre, --- Abélard, Pierre, --- Abelard, Piotr, --- Abelardo, --- Abelardo, Pietro, --- Abeli︠a︡r, Petr, --- Abelʹi︠a︡rd, Petr, --- אבעלאר, --- Epistolae duorum amantium. --- Tegernseer Briefsammlung des 12. Jahrhunderts. --- Carmina Ratisponensia. --- Héloïse, --- Tegernseer Briefsammlung des 12. --- 392.6 "04/14" Seksualiteit. Seksueel leven. Concubinaat. Samenwonen. Prostitutie. Erotiek. Seksuele gebruiken. Liefdeskunst--Middeleeuwen --- History and criticism --- Letters of two lovers --- Medieval Latin literature --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Literature. --- Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

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Inquiring into the formation of a literary canon during the Restoration and the eighteenth century, Barbara Benedict poses the question, "Do anthologies reflect or shape contemporary literary taste?" She finds that there was a cultural dialectic at work: miscellanies and anthologies transmitted particular tastes while in turn being influenced by the larger culture they helped to create. Benedict reveals how anthologies of the time often created a consensus of literary and aesthetic values by providing a bridge between the tastes of authors, editors, printers, booksellers, and readers.Making the Modern Reader, the first full treatment of the early modern anthology, is in part a history of the London printing trade as well as of the professionalization of criticism. Benedict thoroughly documents the historical redefinition of the reader: once a member of a communal literary culture, the reader became private and introspective, morally and culturally shaped by choices in reading. She argues that eighteenth-century collections promised the reader that culture could be acquired through the absorption of literary values. This process of cultural education appealed to a middle class seeking to become discriminating consumers of art.By addressing this neglected genre, Benedict contributes a new perspective on the tension between popular and high culture, between the common reader and the elite. This book will interest scholars working in cultural studies and those studying noncanonical texts as well as eighteenth-century literature in general.Originally published in 1996.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Canon (Literature) --- Editing --- Literature and anthropology --- Books and reading --- Literature publishing --- English literature --- History --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- Adage. --- Adagia. --- Allusion. --- Annotation. --- Anthology. --- Aphra Behn. --- Austen. --- Author. --- Biblical paraphrase. --- Book design. --- Book. --- Bookplate. --- British literature. --- Calligraphy. --- Charles Gildon. --- Charlotte Lennox. --- Classicism. --- Commonplace book. --- Conceit. --- Conduct book. --- Contemporary literature. --- Contemporary society. --- Courtesy book. --- Credential. --- Critical reading. --- Cultural literacy. --- Didacticism. --- Edition (book). --- Editorial. --- Edmund Curll. --- Elizabeth Eisenstein. --- Eloisa to Abelard. --- English novel. --- English poetry. --- Epigram. --- Epigraph (literature). --- Essay. --- Etymology. --- Genre fiction. --- Genre. --- Gift book. --- Handbook. --- Harcourt (publisher). --- Illustration. --- Invention. --- Jacob Tonson. --- John Newbery. --- Jonathan Swift. --- Joseph Addison. --- Joseph Andrews. --- Joseph Warton. --- Juvenal. --- Laurence Sterne. --- Literacy. --- Literary editor. --- Literary theory. --- Literature. --- Miscellany. --- Modern Philology. --- Mr. --- Mrs. --- Narrative. --- New Criticism. --- Novel. --- Novelist. --- Parable. --- Parody. --- Persius. --- Poetry. --- Preface. --- Print culture. --- Printing. --- Proofreading. --- Prose. --- Publication. --- Publishing. --- Pun. --- Punctuation. --- Puritans. --- Rabelais and His World. --- Reader-response criticism. --- Reading revolution. --- Reprint. --- Restoration literature. --- Rhyme. --- Round hand. --- Scholasticism. --- Self-fashioning. --- Simile. --- The Dunciad. --- The Philosopher. --- The Uses of Literacy. --- Thomas Parnell. --- To This Day. --- Travels (book). --- Typography. --- Vertumnus. --- Writer. --- Writing and Difference. --- Writing.