Is Charity for Schmucks?: The Legitimacy of Bienfaisance ca. 1760-82 and ca. 2013-15.

The essay explores how literary accounts of charity and morality influence readers by focusing on three 18th-century French texts "Dangerous Liaisons Les Liaisons dangereuses)" by Pierre-Ambroise-François Choderlos de Laclos, "Jacques the Fatalist and his Master (Jacques le fataliste et son maître)"...

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Publicado en:	Eighteenth Century: Theory & Interpretation Vol. 57; no. 1; pp. 1 - 22
Autor principal:	Douthwaite, Julia V.
Formato:	Literary Criticism
Publicado:	University of Pennsylvania Press Spring2016
Materias:	Charity in literature Ethics in literature Dangerous Liaisons (Book : de Laclos) Laclos, Choderlos de, 1741-1803 Jacques le Fataliste et son Maître (Book : Diderot) Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784 Reveries of the Solitary Walker, The (Book : Rousseau) Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778
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Sumario:	The essay explores how literary accounts of charity and morality influence readers by focusing on three 18th-century French texts "Dangerous Liaisons Les Liaisons dangereuses)" by Pierre-Ambroise-François Choderlos de Laclos, "Jacques the Fatalist and his Master (Jacques le fataliste et son maître)" by Denis Diderot, and "Reveries of the Solitary Walker (Les Rêveries du promeneur solitaire)" by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. It also explores the influence of literature on U.S. politics, using examples involving President Barack Obama and novelist Teju Cole.