Julie, or the New Heloise

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Julie, or the New Heloise is an epistolary novel by Jean-Jacques Rousseau that explores themes of love, virtue, and social convention through the tragic relationship between a noblewoman and her tutor.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf epistolary novel
novel
adaptation stage adaptations
alternateEnglishTitle Julie, or The New Eloise
The New Heloise
author Jean-Jacques Rousseau
centralRelationship noblewoman and her tutor
countryOfOrigin France
firstEditionPlace Amsterdam
genre philosophical novel
romantic fiction
sentimental novel
hasCharacterRelationship Julie d’Étanges is engaged to Baron de Wolmar
Julie d’Étanges is in love with Saint-Preux
influenced European sentimental literature
Romanticism
language French
literaryForm epistolary fiction
literaryMovement Enlightenment literature
mainCharacter Baron de Wolmar
Julie d’Étanges
Saint-Preux
narrativeForm letters
notableFor depiction of landscape
influence on readers’ sensibility in the 18th century
intense emotional tone
originalTitle Julie, ou la Nouvelle Héloïse
philosophicalConcern education of sentiment
ideal of domestic virtue
tension between nature and society
plotElement conflict between passion and duty
tragic love story
publicationYear 1761
publisher Marc-Michel Rey
setting Switzerland
village of Clarens
structure multiple letters
six parts
theme class difference
love
marriage
morality
nature
religion
sensibility
social convention
virtue
timePeriodDepicted 18th century

Referenced by (5)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Julie, or the New Heloise ("The New Heloise")
Julie, or the New Heloise ("Julie, or The New Eloise")
alternateEnglishTitle
Julie, or the New Heloise ("Julie d’Étanges is in love with Saint-Preux")
hasCharacterRelationship
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
notableWork
Julie, or the New Heloise ("Julie, ou la Nouvelle Héloïse")
originalTitle

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