SOURCE: “La Nouvelle Héloïse and the Public of 1761,” in Yale French Studies, No. 28, 1961, pp. 13-19.
In the following excerpt, Mead examines the impact of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's La Nouvelle Héloïse when it was first published, and assesses its impact on the subsequent history of the novel.
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