Bibliograph

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, restless genius, Leo Damrosch

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Label

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, restless genius, Leo Damrosch

Language

eng

Bibliography note

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

resource.biographical

individual biography

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

60419719

Responsibility statement

Leo Damrosch

Sub title

restless genius

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 : Emile 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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