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Gender, authenticity, and the missive letter in eighteenth-century France; Marie-Anne de La Tour, Rousseau's real-life Julie.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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Gender, authenticity, and the missive letter in eighteenth-century France; Marie-Anne de La Tour, Rousseau's real-life Julie.

McAlpin, Mary.

Bucknell University Pr.

2006

250 pages

$48.50

Hardcover

PQ711

In 1761, Jean-Jacques Rousseau began to correspond with an anonymous women who claimed to be the protagonist of his recently published epistolary novel. Over 15 years, they exchanged 175 letters, which De La Tour turned into a manuscript as early as 1770, but because of his objection, the manuscript was not published until ...

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