Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos [ Art and Literature / Association ]
… of ‘private morals’ that was charged with ‘[o]bserving, feeling and portraying’ in order to provide insight into ‘human manners, characters, feelings and passions’. 5 The English novelist’s work took up one of the major themes explored in … the model of sociability that he stigmatised: we must also say that her Work […] has eminently the merit of portraying manners and customs; that it is full of fine and profound observations; that in general, the characters and feelings are … The novel’s epigraph (which was drawn from La Nouvelle Héloïse ( Julie, or the New Heloise )) – ‘I have observed the Manners of the Times, and have wrote these Letters’ 11 – and the juxtaposition of the publisher’s notice and the …
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