Julie, or the New Heloise
A young tutor in the Vaud falls in love with his pupil, a baron's daughter, and their letters carry the affair well past what her father's rank will allow; years later he is invited back to find her married and running a model estate above the lake. Rousseau argues virtue not against passion but through it, and gives the Alps and the shoreline of Geneva a moral weight European readers had not met in fiction before. The best-selling novel of the century, and the source of the sensibility Goethe's Werther inherits.
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- influenced by ↑ Clarissa
- influenced by ↑ Pamela
- ↓ Dangerous Liaisons
- ↓ The Sorrows of Young Werther
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