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| | Richardson, "From Emile to Frankenstein" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | Emily's education, including a "general view of the sciences," "every part of elegant literature," and the inculcation of "modesty, simplicity, and correct manners," represents the most advanced eighteenth-century liberal thinking, anticipating the educational programs of Erasmus Darwin and of Richard and Maria Edgeworth, and standing out incongruously against the novel's sixteenth-century setting (6, 24). |
 | | Safie, to begin with, is educated by her lover, Felix De Lacey, much as Sophie is educated by Emile (or Fanny by Edmund in Mansfield Park). |
 | | Neither the domesticating process of a "sexual education" nor the independent rigors of self-education can, in the end, correct for woman's "otherness" in a male-defined society; the first leaves her too weak, a passive victim like Elizabeth or Justine, the second too independent, necessitating her exile and ultimately her destruction. |
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