Métamorphoses durables

New furniture was the first consumer durable to be successfully diffused to a mass (middle- and working-class) market in Britain. This chapter charts how a small number of furnitur...

Whereas Plato is more commonly considered as an ancient source for The Picture of Dorian Gray, this chapter looks at Ovid and his Metamorphoses as a classical model for Wilde’s sol...

Aujourd’hui, en Europe plus qu’ailleurs, les habitudes de déplacement se transforment au rythme de la prise de conscience environnementale. Les réseaux de transports en commun se d...

Abraham Fraunce’s Amintas Dale (1591) is a generic hybrid, half mythography and half mythological poetry. The mythographical elements likely date back to a draft mythography that F...

Marina Warner is one of Ovid’s best-known and significant critics, and his influence on her work is evident not only in her works of cultural history, such as Fantastic Metamorphos...

Jane Alison’s fascination with Ovid was apparent with the publication of her first book, The Love Artist—a vivid portrayal of Ovid’s exile and the woman who bewitched him. Alison’s...

Ce livre s’inscrit dans le débat contemporain sur l’actualité de la philosophie des Lumières discutant en particulier, par le biais des images de Spinoza au XVIIIe siècle, des gran...