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Anti-clerical gothic: The tale of the sisters in Nicholas Nickleby.

Publisher Modern Humanities Research Association
Publication The Modern Language Review
Subject Literature/writing
Format Magazine/Journal
ISSN 0026-7937
Issues per Year 4
Volume 94
Issue 1
Published 1999-01-01

Role Type Name
Person Criticism and interpretation Charles Dickens
Author n/a Rodney Stenning Edgecombe

Related Content Type
Nicholas Nickleby Salem on Literature

Les Jugements de la critique sur la 'folie' de J.-J. Rousseau: representations et interpretations 1760-1990. By CLAUDE WACJMAN. (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 337) Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation. 1996. viii + 248 pp. 56 [pounds sterling].

As Jean Starobinski famously remarked: 'Decidemment, on n'en a jamais fini avec Rousseau.' Claude Wacjman's new study, while not precisely a 'sequel', serves essentially to complement his earlier work, Fous de Rousseau: le cas Rousseau dans l'histoire de la psychopathologie (Paris: L'Harmattan, 1992), in which he traced the...

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