Bøker av Philip Stewart

Philip Stewart demonstrates that in each of three novels - Marivaux's La Vie de Marianne, Diderot's La Religieuse, and Rousseau's Julie ou la Nouvelle Heloise - the characters' sincerity disguises how incompletely the meaning of their own experience is resolved.

A critical investigation of the role engraving played in 18th-century French literature, which explores the objectification of women. The author describes how "indecent" engravings that purported to test the limits of morality often merely reinforced prevailing female stereotypes.