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    The polemics of sensibility

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    2013-05
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    Flick, Dayton Robert
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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau's epistolary novel, "Julie, ou La Nouvelle Heloise, created a literary sensation as the best-selling book of the eighteenth century, and the author himself had a consequential, if controversial influence on the French Revolution, as well as the Romantic Movement. Although recent scholarship on Rousseau and revolutiln has turned toward the role of ideology in the writings of the author, his sentimental novel receives little modern attention. This essay addresses the salience of Rousseau's novel as the most comprehensive statement of his thought, creating the "myth of Rousseau" and a generation of believers who identified with the author and his philosophy...
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    http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga_etd/flick_dayton_r_201305_phd
    http://hdl.handle.net/10724/28729
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