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This study emphasizes broad cultural themes in Le Lévite d'Ephraïm, Rousseau's rewriting of an ancient biblical text. Taking into account Enlightenment approaches to Biblical interpretation, Rousseau's own traumas, the complications of hospitality, and the role of violence in the construction of national identity, this book lays bare this text's relevance for the 21st-century.

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This study emphasizes broad cultural themes in Le Lévite d'Ephraïm, Rousseau's rewriting of an ancient biblical text. Taking into account Enlightenment approaches to Biblical interpretation, Rousseau's own traumas, the complications of hospitality, and the role of violence in the construction of national identity, this book lays bare this text's relevance for the 21st-century.
Autorenporträt
Barbara Abrams is Director of the Global and Cultural Studies Program and Associate Professor of French and Women's and Gender Studies at Suffolk University Boston. Her main field of interest is Eighteenth-Century French literature. Her current research includes the consignment of women to convents in Eighteenth Century France.