Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Standard Name: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Pastel head-and-shoulders portrait Jean-Jacques Rousseau by Maurice Quentin de la Tour, 1753. He is wearing a short powdered wig, a brown coat and waistcoat, and high white stock, and is smiling slightly at the viewer. Musée Antoine-Lécuyer, Saint-Quentin, northern France.

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Eva Figes
A wide spread of social institutions and systems of knowledge interests EF : she looks at the force of gendered attitudes in theology, commerce, education, psychology and philosophy.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Though she intended to write of women...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Marjorie Bowen
In order to present a balanced view of the events around the murder of Marat , MB adds to the two famous characters—Marat, the most pitiless seeker-out of counter-revolutionaries for the guillotine, and Corday ...

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