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
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        Jacques le Fataliste et son Maître (Book : Diderot)
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