Jean-Jacques Rousseau restless genius
| Main Author: | Damrosch, Leopold. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Boston :
Houghton Mifflin Co.,
2005.
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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.