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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
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The sentimental novel has long been noted for its liberal and humanitarian interests, but also for its predilection for refined feeling, the privilege it accord
Sade’s Philosophical System in its Enlightenment Context
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Addresses how Victorian receptions of Romanticism and Romantic writers were shaped by notions of "nervousness."