The Spring 2009 issue of Eighteenth-Century Fiction includes an article by Professor of French John C. O'Neal on the controversial writer of the Spätaufklärung the marquis de Sade. The article, titled "Sade's Justin: A Response to the Enlightenment's Poetics of Confusion, is part of a book project on the period's progressive poetics of confusion, in which O'Neal attempts to show the myriad ways the philosophes rejected dogmatic thinking and embraced complexity.
