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An Ecocritical Re-reading of Rousseau’s Julie or the New Heloise

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|Dec 2025

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ewcp-2025-0014 | Journal eISSN: 2067-5712 | Journal ISSN: 1583-6401
Language: English
Page range: 60 - 86
Published on: Dec 23, 2025
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