Passionate Philosophy: Amatory Fiction in the Eighteenth-Century Periodical, 1744-1762

This dissertation focuses on the many tales of distressed women found in mid-eighteenth-century British magazines and essay serials. On the one hand, I argue, scenes of “virtue in distress” and amatory fiction more generally demonstrate the increasing commercialization of literature and the rise of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pahl, Chance David
Other Authors: De Bruyn, Frans
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 2018
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10393/38005
http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-22262