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The surprising effects of sympathy : Marivaux, Diderot, Rousseau, and Mary Shelley by David Marshall, 1953- is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
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Through readings of works by Marivaux, Diderot, Rousseau, and Mary Shelley, David Marshall provides a new interpretation of the eighteenth-century preoccupation with theatricality and sympathy. Sympathy is seen not as an instance of sensibility or natural benevolence but rather as an aesthetic and epistemological problem that must be understood in relation to the problem of theatricality. Placing novels in the context of eighteenth-century writing about theater, fiction, and painting, Marshall a
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- Author
- David Marshall, 1953-
- Publisher
- Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 1988
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226507101
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Romance, Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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