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• Subject of passions: Charles Le Brun and the emotions of absolutism

  Author:Chloe HoggFrom:Philological Quarterly (Vol. 93, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Winter 201410,666 words Critical essay For nearly two centuries after Charles Le Brun presented his lecture on the visual representation of the passions to the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in 1668, his drawings provided the textbook...

• ‘Jouissance,’ or Villedieu’s Art of Pleasing

  Editor:Buford NormanFrom: Formes et formations au dix-septième siècle: Actes du 37e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, University of South Carolina, Columbia, 14-16 avril 2005

  20064,935 words Critical essay [(essay date 2006) In the following essay, Hogg traces “Jouissance,” one of Villedieu’s early poems, “through its various oral, manuscript and print incarnations.” Hogg considers the circumstances of the poem’s...