Changing sentiments and the Magdalen Hospital : luxury, virtue and the senses in eighteenth-century culture /
by Mary Peace.
Bok Engelsk 2017
| Omfang | XII, 205 sider : ill.
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| Opplysninger | Introduction: the critical debate: hospital, house or asylum? -- A peculiarly sentimental institution -- The romance of the Magdalen House: Clarissa, Lady Vane and the "original" letters of the Magdalens -- Prostitute memoirs, luxury and the fall of Rome -- The rise of primitivist sentiment: Clarissa and la nouvelle Héloïse -- Magdalens and the performance of virtue: Sterne and Crebillon -- "Chaplain extraordinary": the unfortunate Dr Dodd, the sisters and the limits of the moral sense -- Conclusion: the Magdalens and the revolution of sentiment: Rousseau, Wollstonecraft and Burke.
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| Emner | English literature - History and criticism.
Prostitutes in literature. Prostitutes - Rehabilitation - History - Great Britain Sentimentalism in literature. Vis mer... Virtue in literature.
Women - Institutional care - History - Great Britain prostitusjon i litteratur prostituerte sentimentalisme 1700-tallet historie kvinner |
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| ISBN | 9781848934948
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