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Author Marshall, David, 1953 December 20-

Title The surprising effects of sympathy : Marivaux, Diderot, Rousseau, and Mary Shelley / David Marshall
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1988]
©1988

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Description x, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Surprising Effects of Sympathy -- 2. La Vie de Marianne , or the Accidents of Autobiography 3. La Religieuse : Sympathy and Seduction -- 4. Forgetting Theater -- 5. Rousseau and the State of Theater -- 6. Frankenstein , or Rousseau's Monster: Sympathy and Speculative Eyes -- Appendix: Mary Shelley and Rousseau -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index
Analysis Fiction in French, 1715-1789 - Critical studies
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 236-280
Subject Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784. Religieuse
Marivaux, Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de, 1688-1763 -- Fictional works.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778. Lettre a d'Alembert sur les spectacles
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778. Lettre a Mr. d'Alembert sur les spectacles
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778. Lettre à d'Alembert sur les spectacles
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778. Lettre sur les spectacles.
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851. Frankenstein.
Aesthetics, French -- 18th century.
Comparative literature -- French and English.
French fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
Comparative literature -- English and French.
Sympathy in literature.
Theater -- Moral and ethical aspects.
LC no. 87019214
ISBN 0226507106