Introduction: the critical debate: hospital, house or asylum? -- A peculiarly sentimental institution -- The romance of the Magdalen House: Clarissa, Lady Vane and the "original" letters of the Magdalens -- Prostitute memoirs, luxury and the fall of...
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Introduction: the critical debate: hospital, house or asylum? -- A peculiarly sentimental institution -- The romance of the Magdalen House: Clarissa, Lady Vane and the "original" letters of the Magdalens -- Prostitute memoirs, luxury and the fall of Rome -- The rise of primitivist sentiment: Clarissa and la nouvelle Héloïse -- Magdalens and the performance of virtue: Sterne and Crebillon -- "Chaplain extraordinary": the unfortunate Dr Dodd, the sisters and the limits of the moral sense -- Conclusion: the Magdalens and the revolution of sentiment: Rousseau, Wollstonecraft and Burke
