Rousseau’s Unfaithful Readers: Revisiting Women’s Reception of Julie in the Letters of Bernardoni and de la Tour

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Brief Overview

This paper examines Bernardoni and de la Tour's letters to Rousseau, in order to critically re-examines the reception of Rousseau’s novel Julie by women readers of his time.

Author

• Erica Kunimoto, University of Toronto