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Gender, authenticity, and the missive letter in eighteenth-century France
Rousseau, jean-jacques, 1712-1778
City and town life in literature
Letter writing
Romanticism
Women authors
Correspondence
Criticism and interpretation
History and criticism
History
"In 1761, Marie-Anne de La Tour wrote to Jean-Jacques Rousseau claiming to be the real-life embodiment of his fictional heroine, Julie of La Nouvelle Heloise. The two went on to exchange 175 letters over some fifteen years. Since its first publication in 1803, this correspondence has been cited as e…
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