Record details

• ISBN: 0618446966
• ISBN: 9780618446964
• Physical Description: x, 566 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
• Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2005.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 499-549) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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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Subject:

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778.
Authors, French > 18th century > Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.