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Changing sentiments and the Magdalen Hospital : luxury, virtue and the senses in eighteenth-century culture
Title
Changing sentiments and the Magdalen Hospital : luxury, virtue and the senses in eighteenth-century culture / Mary Peace.
ISBN
9781848934948
1848934947
Publication
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
Physical Description
xii, 205 pages ; 24 cm
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 24, 2017
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: the critical debate: hospital, house or asylum?
A peculiarly sentimental institution
The romance of the Magdalen House: Clarissa, Lady Vane and the "original" letters of the Magdalens
Prostitute memoirs, luxury and the fall of Rome
The rise of primitivist sentiment: Clarissa and la nouvelle Héloïse
Magdalens and the performance of virtue: Sterne and Crebillon
"Chaplain extraordinary": the unfortunate Dr Dodd, the sisters and the limits of the moral sense
Conclusion: the Magdalens and the revolution of sentiment: Rousseau, Wollstonecraft and Burke.
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