Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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...

Percy Shelley had dreams of enacting sexual liberation which Mary did not fully share. In France in 1814 she declined to swim naked in a river with him; according to Claire she objected that it...

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...

GS released a limited edition of Lettres sur les ouvrages et le caractère de J.-J. Rousseau (Letters on the Works and Character of Jean-Jacques Rousseau).

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...

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...

FT published some short pieces, mostly sketches of her travels such as Midnight Passage of Mont du Chat in the November 1843 issue of New Monthly Magazine, and The Value of a Shawl the...

She also furthered her own education by early-morning visits to the library, sometimes permitted though sometimes stopped, during which she read everything I could lay hands on, including Tennyson , Matthew Arnold , Swift 's...

This novel re-writes Rousseau 's Julie; ou, La nouvelle Héloise in the sentimental style of Frances Sheridan 's Sidney Bidulph or Henry Mackenzie 's Julia de Roubigné. The love-triangle of Williams's Julia is...

Julia is layered with allusion not only to Rousseau and Goethe but also to John Home 's tragedy Douglas.

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...