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Jean-Jacques Rousseau : restless genius
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- Creator
- Leo Damrosch
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2005
- Physical Details
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- x, 566 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780618446964, 0618446966
- OCLC
- ocm60419719
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [499]-549) and index.
- 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