Jean-Jacques Rousseau

This preface is headed by two Latin words (one with a faulty grammatical ending) from Ovid 's description of chaos. SG slams both male and female novelists, chiefly authors of gothic or horrid novels and...

He describes her with a line from Donne 's Second Anniversary. EG 's range of reference here includes Rousseau , Milton , Frances Greville , and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu . Characters discuss and...

The widely varied quotations heading the chapters include some in Latin (Virgil , Cicero , Lucretius , Horace ) and some in French (Rousseau , Voltaire , Marmontel , and Manon Roland ). The English writers quoted include Mary Robinson .

Richard Graves may have been disappointed, for the introduction and early lives are substantially the same as in the 1778 version which he had already read (though Hester Mulso Chapone has been added to the...

In this work MH takes a position generally compatible with that of the Dissenters. She was spurred to write by the need to answer Wakefield 's Enquiry into the Expediency and Propriety of Public or...

Rousseau , along with Montesquieu , was one of the formative influences on the young GS .

Among other things this is an answer to Rousseau 's Julie; ou, La nouvelle Héloïse, 1761 (in which GS found the famous line about the soul having no sex). It is also a response...

As it stands, Frankenstein is no ghost story, though it is rich in the uncanny, and aims to chill its reader's blood. MS shows an astonishing power for such a young author of weaving together...

The book bears in various details the influence of Jane Austen , though its overall project of pious didacticism is at odds with Austen's approach. The title-page quotes Rousseau on the topic of the sensitive...

As she moved on intellectually from her religious youth, she became steeped in the Higher Criticism of the Bible, and increasingly interested in alternative explanatory systems, particularly those of social science—including Herbert Spencer ...

The novel opens with a philosophical dialogue (between males) which makes reference to Voltaire , Hume , Rousseau , and Godwin 's Caleb Williams. Its subtitle sounds like a pointer to autobiographical content, and...

This epistolary novel, set mainly in a castle with secret passages connecting to a monastic ruin , deals with strictly contemporary issues of power and independence. It reflects the influence of EF 's friend Wollstonecraft

Again the novel centres on its heroine; again the message is dark; again Rousseau 's Julie, ou La Nouvelle Héloise is an important presence in the text. This time, however, it is complex rather than...

The letters are addressed to Hortensia (the name of a Roman matron who acted against gender convention by speaking publicly in the Forum against a proposed tax on women).

The Critical Review, which had praised AO 's earlier work, thought this novel equally well done, and that the description of the heroine's death could stand comparison with those of Richardson 's Clarissa or...