James Fowler 
Richardson and the Philosophes [EPUB ebook] 

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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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Formato EPUB ● Pagine 185 ● ISBN 9781351550802 ● Casa editrice Taylor and Francis ● Pubblicato 2017 ● Scaricabile 3 volte ● Moneta EUR ● ID 5325435 ● Protezione dalla copia Adobe DRM
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