| Description |
x, 566 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [499]-549) and index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778.
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Authors, French -- 18th century -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
0618446966 |
| Standard No. |
9780618446964 |
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