FRH 437 EROS ENLIGHTENED

A comparative approach, using various examples taken from literary and scientific texts, paintings or film adaptations, that will explore the concepts of love, sexuality, transgression, and desire in the age of Enlightenment. Selected readings from Abbé Prévost, Crébillon fils, Marivaux, Rousseau, Diderot, Tissot, Laclos, Casanova, and Sade.