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LITERARY MURDER

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 August 2006

ROBERT MANKIN
ROBERT MANKIN
Affiliation:
University of Paris 7
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Extract

John Brewer, The Pleasures of the Imagination. English Culture in the Eighteenth Century (London: HarperCollins, 1997)

John Brewer, Sentimental Murder. Love and Madness in the Eighteenth Century (London: HarperCollins, 2004)

Times have changed. Consider how George Orwell, in 1946, imagined the reader sitting down to a moment of pleasure.

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Review Essays
Information
Modern Intellectual History , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , August 2006 , pp. 371 - 384
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© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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