What is it about?
Article reads Frances Brooke's Julia Mandeville in the light of Rousseau's educational program in Emile; and investigates totalitarianism in the context of children's education.
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Why is it important?
It offers a much-needed interpretation of one of the best novels of the eighteenth century. Julia Mandeville flirts with and critiques Rousseau's program, especially its totalitarian leanings, which for Brooke have devastating consequences.
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This is a bold perspective on a little-discussed novel that mounts an Enlightenment feminist critique and showcases Enlightenment's capacity to generate heterogeneous commitments.
Enit Steiner
University of Lausanne, Switzerland
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This page is a summary of: Romantic Education, Concealment, and Orchestrated Desire in Rousseauâs Emile and Frances Brookeâs Julia Mandeville, Nature,
DOI: 10.1057/9781137475862.0005.
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