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Richardson and the Philosophes (Hardcover)
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Richardson and the Philosophes (Hardcover)
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In mid-eighteenth-century Europe, a taste for sentiment accompanied
the 'rise of the novel', and the success of Samuel Richardson
(1689-1761) played a vital role in this. James Fowler's new study
is the first to compare the response of the most famous philosophes
to the Richardson phenomenon. Voltaire, who claims to despise the
novel, writes four 'Richardsonian' fictions; Diderot's fascination
with the English author is expressed in La Religieuse, Rousseau's
in Julie the century's bestseller. Yet the philosophes' response
remains ambivalent. On the one hand they admire Richardson's
ability to make the reader weep. On the other, they champion a
range of Enlightenment beliefs which he, an enthusiast of Milton,
vehemently opposed. In death as in life, the English author
exacerbates the philosophes' rivalry. The eulogy which Diderot
writes in 1761 implicitly asks: who can write a new Clarissa? But
also: whose social, philosophical or political ideas will triumph
as a result?"
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