There was famous case (Wendy Moore recently has a book out about him, though I dissent from 'original of Pygmalion' as USP*) of the enlightenment philosopher Thomas Day who adopted up 2 female foundlings to be educated by Rousseauian methods with a view to marrying one of them in due course.
You would think he might have read Moliere's 'L'Ecole des Femmes', which is a dreadful warning on that kind of enterprise. Marivaux also deployed this trope I think.
*How new and untrodden these fields we wonder, since I first read about this bizarrity in V Woolf's Common Reader when I was 17.
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Date: 2011-01-10 03:26 pm (UTC)You would think he might have read Moliere's 'L'Ecole des Femmes', which is a dreadful warning on that kind of enterprise. Marivaux also deployed this trope I think.
*How new and untrodden these fields we wonder, since I first read about this bizarrity in V Woolf's Common Reader when I was 17.