Jean-Jacques Rousseau : restless genius / Leo Damrosch.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau : restless genius / Leo Damrosch.
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Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., c2005.
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N848.509/6
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English
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Physical content
x, 566 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
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 guilt...
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Publisher
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., c2005.
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
c2005.
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"Damrosch's triumph is to integrate the story of Rousseau's extraordinarily original writings with the tumultuous life that produced them. Rousseau's own words and those of people who knew him help create an accessible portrait of a questing man whose strangeness - as punishing and punished lover, difficult friend, and father who famously consigned...
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau : restless genius / Leo Damrosch.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N848.509/6
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74VKmbVxrJpb
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKmbVxrJpb
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ISBN
9780618446964
0618446966
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848.509
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991020691639702626
