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Sex and Enlightenment: Women in Richardson and Diderot Goldberg, Rita (Trinity College, Cambridge)
Sex and Enlightenment: Women in Richardson and Diderot
Goldberg, Rita (Trinity College, Cambridge)
Dr Goldberg argues that Samuel Richardson had expressed a powerful and hitherto unperceived sexual mythology in Clarissa, which also influenced Diderot's La Religieuse. Richardson's novels had achieved Diderot's declared aim as editor of the great Encyclopédie: to change the way people think.
252 pages, black & white illustrations
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | February 4, 2010 |
| ISBN13 | 9780521129886 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 252 |
| Dimensions | 138 × 217 × 18 mm · 330 g |
| Language | English |