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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Published in:	Eighteenth Century: Theory & Interpretation Vol. 57; no. 1; pp. 1 - 22
Main Author:	Douthwaite, Julia V.
Format:	Literary Criticism
Published:	University of Pennsylvania Press Spring2016
Subjects:	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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