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From the internationally bestselling and prize-winning author of The Song of Achilles and Circe, an enchanting short story that boldly reimagines the myth of Galatea and Pygmalion.**A small hardback edition featuring a new afterword by Madeline Miller**In Ancient Greece, a skilled marble sculptor has been blessed by a goddess who has given his masterpiece - the most beautiful woman the town has ever seen - the gift of life. Now his wife, he expects Galatea to please him, to be obedience and humility personified. But she has desires of her own, and yearns for independence. In a desperate bid by her obsessive husband to keep her under control, she is locked away under the constant supervision of doctors and nurses. But with a daughter to rescue, she is determined to break free, whatever the cost. Praise for CIRCE'A thrilling tour de force of imagination' Mail on Sunday'A bold and subversive retelling' New York Times 'A novel to be gobbled greedily in one sitting' Observer'A remarkable achievement' Sunday Times

American literature --- Sculptors --- Pygmalion (Greek mythology) --- Greece

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French literature --- Pygmalion (Greek mythology) --- Littérature française --- Pygmalion (Mythologie grecque) --- Littérature française --- Pygmalion

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Comparative religion --- Sculpture --- Galatea, statue brought to life (Greek mythology) --- Love --- Mythology, Greek. --- Pygmalion (Greek mythology) --- Statues in literature. --- Mythology. --- Ovid, --- Galatea, statue brought to life (Greek mythology). --- Pygmalion (Greek mythology).

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Pygmalion (Greek mythology) --- Arts. --- Arts --- Art. --- Pygmalion --- -Arts, Fine --- Arts, Occidental --- Arts, Western --- Fine arts --- Humanities --- Art --- -Art --- Arts, Fine --- Mythology, Greek --- Arts, Primitive --- Pygmalion,

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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