The Sprites of Kernosy Castle (1710) by Mme de Murat exemplifies the novel of leisure, a type of fiction popular at the end of the seventeenth century, reflecting both increased interest in the private lives of the aristocracy and a pre-Enlightenment questioning of political and religious orthodoxies.
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