Bibliograph

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, restless genius, Leo Damrosch

Type

Label

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, restless genius, Leo Damrosch

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [499]-549) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

portraitsmapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Leo Damrosch

Sub title

restless genius

Summary

Reconstructs the life of the French literary genius whose writing changed opinions and fueled fierce debate on both sides of the Atlantic during the period of the American and French revolutions

Table Of Contents

The loneliness of a gifted child -- The end of innocence -- "I desired a happiness of which I had no idea" -- Rousseau finds a mother -- A year of wandering -- In Maman's house -- The idyll of Les Charmettes -- Broadening horizons : Lyon and Paris -- The masks of Venice -- A life partner and a guilty secret -- A writer's apprenticeship -- The beginnings of fame -- Rousseau's originality -- Lionized in Geneva, alienated in Paris -- An affair of the heart -- The break with the Enlightenment -- Peace at last and the triumph of Julie -- Rousseau the controversialist : Émile and The social contract -- Exile in the mountains -- Another expulsion -- In a strange land -- The past relived -- Into the self-made labyrinth -- The final years in Paris

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