Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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...

Most of JK 's education in Bulgaria took place in French (a habit among the intelligentsia dating from before Communism), though Russian was also a compulsory subject. Her parents were unusual in choosing a French-speaking...

In reading The Father's Wedding-day, Walter Savage Landor said he pressed my temples with both hands, and tears ran down to my elbows.. He read this story over and over again, and...

AL wrote in her diary a statement echoing Rousseau : I know my own heart, and understand my fellow man. From this her editor Helena Whitbread titled the first printed volume of the diary.

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).

HM seems to have considered the wide circulation of Dickens 's Household Words too good an opportunity for influence to be passed up. Among the stories she contributed were Woodruffe the Gardener, The People...

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 .

Dawson later recalled her as blithe and insouciant about set-texts and exams, preferring to roam over philosophical and literary ideas from Plato to Arthur Koestler . She was marvellously eclectic, with a passion...

The Monthly Review was on the whole complimentary. It judged the novel to be original and entertaining, though it complained of a few Hibernicisms and grammatical errors. It concentrated, oddly, on the Don Zulvago plot...

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...

J. B. Priestley , focussing on the noble-savage aspects of this story, complained that its characters do not really come from Borneo, they come from Rousseau and cloud-cuckoo land.Vita Sackville West , however...

The romantic outcast hero Walsingham feels a conflicted love for Isabella (he improbably rapes another woman who dresses as her at a masquerade, and feels only a brief remorse). He also loves his brilliant cousin...

Her upbringing had a freedom in accordance with the dictates of Rousseau rather than the conventions of her class. Her father's tutor, François Deschartres, instructed the young Aurore in botany, mathematics, Latin, and Greek. At...

MAS adds a new aesthetic category, the contemplative sublime, alongside the Burke an or terrible sublime and other categories related to the Burkean beautiful. She derives her thinking from women as well as men. In...

After seriously injuring her ankle at the age of fourteen, AS was dependent on horses for mobility for the rest of her life. Her gratitude towards these animals, coupled with the Quaker and Rousseauvian values...