Mark Kremer is associate professor of political science at Kennesaw State University.

In Romanticism and Civilization, [there] is a reader and imitator of Richardson and Prévost, a would-be stoic and Platonist, a novelist wise enough to separate his novel from politics, and a writer who manages to synchronize the conservative values of Christian piety, aristocratic honor, and patriarchal authority in Julie.

• Chapter 1 The Bourgeois, Nature, and Civic Virtue: Sexual Relations in Three SocietiesChapter 2 Rousseau's Romantic Reform of Christian Piety, Aristocratic Honor, and Patriarchal AuthorityChapter 3 Rousseau's Romantic Alternatives: Love and Family

Mark Kremer is associate professor of political science at Kennesaw State University.

In Romanticism and Civilization, [there] is a reader and imitator of Richardson and Prévost, a would-be stoic and Platonist, a novelist wise enough to separate his novel from politics, and a writer who manages to synchronize the conservative values of Christian piety, aristocratic honor, and patriarchal authority in Julie.

• Chapter 1 The Bourgeois, Nature, and Civic Virtue: Sexual Relations in Three SocietiesChapter 2 Rousseau's Romantic Reform of Christian Piety, Aristocratic Honor, and Patriarchal AuthorityChapter 3 Rousseau's Romantic Alternatives: Love and Family