Cet article aborde les concepts de la mesure et de l’excès par le prisme du terme “modest”. Considérer la modestie comme une valeur clé des xviie et xviiie siècles permet de détailler les dimensions politiques et esthétiques de la modération dans toute leur complexité. L’adjectif “modest” est utilisé très fréquemment pendant cette période et l’étude s’appuie sur des exemples tirés de Jonathan Swift, John Milton, Sarah Fielding et Alexander Pope pour montrer le rôle joué par ce mot dans la rhétorique politique, la bienséance entre les sexes, la représentation à la ville comme à la scène. Cependant, comme le montre la variété des usages de la modestie, celle-ci sert aussi à souligner les tensions entre naturalisme, retenue et passion, ainsi q...
This essay proposes a bifurcation within the concept of moderation in early modern Europe. To draw t...
Saying that modesty has disappeared from our society is too quick and easy. In truth, it has simply ...
This thesis contextualises the treatment of women in Alexander Pope's Epistle to a Lady (1743) again...
This essay explores the concept of measure and excess through the lens of the term “modest.” By look...
« Disposition à se retenir de montrer, d’observer, de faire état de certaines parties de son corps, ...
This article examines the progressive secularization of vanity in the 17th and 18th cen...
[Extract] “…it is a notorious truth that a modest person does not act under the title of modesty” – ...
This article explores some diverging attitudes towards the character trait of complaisance—the incli...
In the mid-1790s, when the «Jacobin panic » reached its climax in Britain, even poetry was used as a...
This paper aims to offer a new insight on the virtue of modesty. It argues that modesty is best unde...
Au cœur de la relation thérapeutique se joue une rencontre des corps et des sens. Une rencontre d’au...
Cet article examine un ensemble particulier de réactions polémiques à l’assassinat du roi Charles Ie...
Responding to a need in the sphere of serious academic scholarship to address the topic of modesty, ...
This article considers the shapes of the 18th century in the sphere of philosophy (Condillac, Didero...
National audienceThis article tackles the question of the 'intime' by thinking about the modelling o...
This essay proposes a bifurcation within the concept of moderation in early modern Europe. To draw t...
Saying that modesty has disappeared from our society is too quick and easy. In truth, it has simply ...
This thesis contextualises the treatment of women in Alexander Pope's Epistle to a Lady (1743) again...
This essay explores the concept of measure and excess through the lens of the term “modest.” By look...
« Disposition à se retenir de montrer, d’observer, de faire état de certaines parties de son corps, ...
This article examines the progressive secularization of vanity in the 17th and 18th cen...
[Extract] “…it is a notorious truth that a modest person does not act under the title of modesty” – ...
This article explores some diverging attitudes towards the character trait of complaisance—the incli...
In the mid-1790s, when the «Jacobin panic » reached its climax in Britain, even poetry was used as a...
This paper aims to offer a new insight on the virtue of modesty. It argues that modesty is best unde...
Au cœur de la relation thérapeutique se joue une rencontre des corps et des sens. Une rencontre d’au...
Cet article examine un ensemble particulier de réactions polémiques à l’assassinat du roi Charles Ie...
Responding to a need in the sphere of serious academic scholarship to address the topic of modesty, ...
This article considers the shapes of the 18th century in the sphere of philosophy (Condillac, Didero...
National audienceThis article tackles the question of the 'intime' by thinking about the modelling o...
This essay proposes a bifurcation within the concept of moderation in early modern Europe. To draw t...
Saying that modesty has disappeared from our society is too quick and easy. In truth, it has simply ...
This thesis contextualises the treatment of women in Alexander Pope's Epistle to a Lady (1743) again...