Enlightenment and Pathology

Informationen zum Autor Anne C. Vila is associate professor of French at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her previous book was a translation of The Quadrille of Gender: Casanova's Memoirs by Francois Roustang. Klappentext If moods are as contagious as colds, and wickedness as debilitating as a bad diet, inquiries into assorted discourses in 18th-century France still have much to tell. Author Anne Vila shows that multiple junctures between the body and the mind promoted a steady commerce of speculation and discussion between science and the social salons of the time. 9 illustrations.

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Anne C. Vila is associate professor of French at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her previous book was a translation of The Quadrille of Gender: Casanova's Memoirs by Francois Roustang.

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If moods are as contagious as colds, and wickedness as debilitating as a bad diet, inquiries into assorted discourses in 18th-century France still have much to tell. Author Anne Vila shows that multiple junctures between the body and the mind promoted a steady commerce of speculation and discussion between science and the social salons of the time. 9 illustrations.