TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lyons,John D.
TI  - Before Imagination: Embodied Thought from Montaigne to Rousseau
SN  - 9780804767576
AV  - PQ145 
U1  - 840.9/384 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Redwood City
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - French literature -- 16th century -- History and criticism
KW  - French literature -- 17th century -- History and criticism
KW  - French literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
KW  - Imagination in literature
KW  - Philosophy, French -- 16th century
KW  - Philosophy, French -- 17th century
KW  - Philosophy, French -- 18th century
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Return of Stoic Imagination -- 2 Self-Cultivation and Religious Meditation -- 3 Picturing Ourselves in the World: Pascal's Pens ´ ees -- 4 The Imagination of Loss -- 5 From Imagination to Significance: The Novel from Scud ´ ery to Lafayette -- 6 How the Ancients Modernized Imagination -- Conclusion
N2  - A study of the practice of vivid, self-directed imagination in the optimistic spirit of the early-modern French writers
UR  - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3037516
ER  -