The Libertine’s Nemesis: The Prude in Clarissa and the roman libertin
James Fowler
Legenda (General Series) •4 February 2011
- ‘The beguiling cover of this Legenda volume is well matched by the book’s contents. Fowler’s thesis is an original and well-argued one: the establishment of a symbiotic relationship between the libertine and the prude in a number of key eighteenth-century texts... the argument is persuasive and elegant, and we are swept along by the author’s enthusiasm for his subject.’ — John Phillips, French Studies 66.3, July 2012, 402
Modern Language Review 101.2•1 April 2006
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Modern Language Review 103.2•1 April 2008
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Modern Language Review 103.4•1 October 2008
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Review of Anne Beate Maurseth, L'Analogie et le probable: Pensée et écriture chez Denis Diderot doi:10.2307/20468065 | ||
Modern Language Review 11.3•1 July 1916
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Modern Language Review 13.3•1 July 1918
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Modern Language Review 90.2•1 April 1995
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Review of Jean Starobinski, Charles Wirz, Annales de la Société Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Vol. XL doi:10.2307/3734596 | ||
Modern Language Review 90.4•1 October 1995
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Review of Malcolm Cook, Fictional France: Social Reality in the French Novel, 1775-1800 doi:10.2307/3733107 | ||
Modern Language Review 91.2•1 April 1996
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Modern Language Review 92.1•1 January 1997
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Review of T. D. Hemming, E. Freeman, D. Meakin, The Secular City: Studies in the Enlightenment doi:10.2307/3734731 | ||
Review of Christine Clarke-Evans, Diderot's 'La Religieuse': A Philosophical Novel doi:10.2307/3734734 | ||
Modern Language Review 93.1•1 January 1998
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Modern Language Review 94.2•1 April 1999
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Review of Julia Simon, Mass Enlightenment: Critical Studies in Rousseau and Diderot doi:10.2307/3737172 | ||
Modern Language Review 96.4•1 October 2001
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Review of Walter E. Rex, Diderot's Counterpoints: The Dynamics of Contrariety in His Major Works doi:10.2307/3735907 | ||
Modern Language Review 97.3•1 July 2002
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Review of Nicholas Cronk, Études sur 'Le Fils naturel' et les 'Entretiens sur Le Fils naturel' de Diderot doi:10.2307/3737534 | ||
Richardson and the Philosophes
James Fowler
Legenda (General Series) •23 April 2014
- ‘James Fowler aims to restore Richardson to his proper place in an Enlightenment that resisted stratification along na- tional lines, and one in which Enlightenment and counter-Enlightenment ideals inter- sected productively to engender the ideological dynamism we associate with the second half of the eighteenth century... Fowler initiates an important conversation about Richardson’s influence on the Continent.’ — Hans Nazar, French Studies 69.2, April 2015, 245
- ‘The strength of Fowler’s study is found in his examination of a debate that perplexed Christians and deists alike (and with which atheists, too, had to engage): the role of Providence in conducting human affairs (or not) and the subsequent question of whether justice is to be achieved in this world or the next.’ — Karen Lacey-Holder, Modern Language Review 110.3, July 2015, 785-86 (full text online)
- ‘The book is the most sustained examination to date of why Richardson, ‘a ‘‘counter-Enlightenment’’ writer’ who ‘claimed to write religious novels in order to counter anti-Christian tendencies in Britain’, should find such a sincere, serious, and even emulative audience in a generation of French intellectuals who ‘almost by definition, saw revealed religion as a source of prejudice and superstition’.’ — James Smith, The Year's Work in English Studies 95.1, 2016, 655-56
The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, Volume 58: Survey Year 1996
Edited by Stephen Parkinson•1 January 1998
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The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, Volume 59: Survey Year 1997
Edited by Stephen Parkinson•2 January 1999
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