Leçons d’amour des Lumières
By (author) Stéphanie Loubère Series edited by Michel Delon Series edited by Jacques Berchtold
Paperback (Published)
(September 2011)
ISBN: 9782812402951
6.18 x 9.45 inches
Price: $48.00
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The admirers of Ovid and his Art of loving were many during the Enlightenment. These love lessons reveal the inexhaustible resources of the erotic invention of a time that made love its main pursuit.
- By (author) Stéphanie Loubère
- Series edited by Michel Delon
- Series edited by Jacques Berchtold
Review - French Avec sonArt d'aimer, Ovide avait offert a l'antiquite son manuel erotique, et legue aux siecles a venir un modele dont la survie a trouve une resonance particuliere a l'heure de l'Encyclopedieet du libertinage. Aux cotes d'une profusion d'imitations et de traductions du texte d'Ovide, on voit alors paraitre toute une serie de textes qui partagent avec lui l'ambition de delivrer des lecons d'amour. La tentation de reduire les emois du coeur ou de la chair a un systeme rejoint ainsi le desir de savoir et la volonte de maitrise de l'homme des Lumieres. A l'occasion serieuses, souvent joyeuses, volontiers cyniques, ces lecons d'amour nous renseignent sur les ressources inepuisables de l'invention erotique d'une epoque qui fit de l'amour sa grande affaire.
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