...Célia Abele Abstract This essay shows that the pre-Romantic conception of the late Rousseau as alone in nature has led to misunderstandings of the project of the Rêveries du promeneur solitaire as an exclusively solipsistic text about Rousseau’s self turning inward. Focusing on the central “Fifth...

...Alicia C. Montoya Copyright © 2009 The Trustees of Columbia University 2009 Alicia C. Montoya MEDIEVALISM AND ENLIGHTENMENT, 1647-1750: JEAN CHAPELAIN TO JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Critiques of modernity and the Enlightenment project increasingly recognize the need to historicize the Enlightenment...

...Ourida Mostefai Copyright © 2012 The Trustees of Columbia University 2012 Ourida Mostefai UN AUTEUR PARADOXAL : SINGULARITE ET EXEMPLARITE DE LA CARRIERE DE ROUSSEAU Ecrire, c'est entrer en scene - Paul Valery O n assiste durant la seconde moitie du dix-huitieme siecle a un changement profond...

...Ross Hamilton Copyright © 2004 The Trustees of Columbia University 2004 Ross Hamilton PLAYING WITH CHANCE: ROUSSEAU'S ILLUMINATION Gambling obsessed all levels of French society during the Enlightenment. Louis XIV held appartements du roi given over to gambling three times a week...

...Andrew Billing Copyright © 2009 The Trustees of Columbia University 2009 Andrew Billing POLITICAL AND DOMESTIC ECONOMY IN ROUSSEAU'S JULIE, OU LA NOUVELLE HELOIsE 1. Politics and the "Discourse of Pathos" Julie, ou la Nouvelle Heloise continues to prove enigmatic for those interested...

...Dorothea von Mücke Copyright © 2012 The Trustees of Columbia University 2012 Dorothea von Mucke PRIVATE WRITER AND PUBLIC AUTHOR: AUTHORSHIP AND AUDIENCES IN ROUSSEAU'S CONFESSIONS Jean-Jacques Rousseau was very critical of his publics, especially when it came to the power play, networking...

...Guillemette Johnston Copyright © 2001 The Trustees of Columbia University 2001 Guillemette Johnston CONSTITUTIVE ELEMENTS OF THE DISCOURSE OF NATURAL INSTRUCTION IN ROUSSEAU'S EMILE: SITUATIONS AND IMPLICATIONS I n Emile, l Jean-Jacques Rousseau describes a mythical process of education...

... shortcomings. Molière thus articulates the profoundly divided nature of Alceste indicated by Donneau de Visé (“ridicule”/“juste”), Rousseau (“un homme droit, sincère, estimable,” but also facing the world as “un personnage ridicule”), and recently by Georges Forestier and Claude Bourqui (the melancholic...

...Geoffrey Turnovsky Crying into Print Geoffrey Turnovsky Crying into Print: Sentimental Reading, Spiritual Exaltation, and Typographic Standardization I n the archive of fan mail addressed to ­Jean-­Jacques Rousseau by avid readers of La Nouvelle Héloïse following its 1761 publication, Pierre...

... formation religieuse de Rousseau , Paris, Hachette, 1916, p. 9–14. 61. Dictionnaire de l’Académie française (1762), Dictionnaires d’autrefois , the ARTFL project, https://artflsrv03.uchicago.edu/philologic4/publicdicos/query?report=bibliography&head=vertu . 62. Émile , p. 589: « Ô...

... of authorship, I turn now to Denis Diderot and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, in particular to their reference to the writers of classical antiquity. Located somewhere between authoritative canonicity and free-floating intertextuality, the reference to classical antiquity is a crucial element in these authors' staging...

...Karen Sullivan Note from Gita May Karen Sullivan In the Footsteps of Gita May In 1988, when I was in search of a dissertation topic to feel enthusiastic about, I took Gita May s course on Rousseau. Professor May (as I called her at the time) introduced Rousseau s Discourse on the Origin...

... of some influential treatments of odour by literary writers is indicated. One prevalent strand of thought categorises sight and hearing, and to some extent touch, as the analytic senses, playing a major role in the development of infantile consciousness. Rousseau, in whose work Deleuze was deeply immersed...

... la harangère à la ‘harangueuse’: étude d’un stéréotype polémique forgé au XVIIe siècle .” In Ouverture et dialogue: mélanges offerts à Wolfgang Leiner , 739 – 53 . Tübingen : Narr , 1988 . Rousseau Jean-Jacques . Œuvres complètes , vol. 4 . Edited by Gagnebin Bernard...

... decrit comme un gueux, un jaloux, un calomniateur, un rate depourvu de talent. Tout cela va changer avec Rousseau, qui, en renouant avec les exempla de Diogene, de Socrate et de Jesus, se posera en pauvre volontaire, en homme authentique qui ecarte les gloires artificielles de l'argent en faveur des...

...-Jacques Rousseau, she is sensitive to the appeal of personal history and drawn to the model of the Confessions, but also aware of a need to find her own way of shaping her story. The work of authorial self-construction, both over the course of her publication career and in the process of writing her life...

... molecules. JJe ne meurs donc point. 10. See Elena Russo, "Slander and Glory in the Republic of Letters: Diderot and Seneca Confront Rousseau," Republics of Letters: A Journal for the Study of Knowledge, Politics, and the Arts, no. 1 (May 1, 2009), httprofl.stanford.edu/node/40. 11. See Andrew Clark...

... but precisely to its opposite, that is, to the negativity that founds all cultural plurality, preventing anyone culture from trying to dominate others by posing as the positive identity underlying and explaining their multiplicity. This staging of the void appears in Rousseau's understanding of the national...

... insignifiantes, si l'on excepte Consuelo. II fait donc figure de pere mythique, ayant eu un passe brillant mais deja lointain, tel ce heros mort precocement que fut Ie pere de George Sand lors des guerres d'Italie? Ou plutot tel Rousseau, envers qui la generation romantique a une relation filiale - avec tous les...

... of literary destruction were told and retold. In addition to Mercier, the problem of the Alexandrian library appears in the works of Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Denis Diderot, Gibbon, David Hume, Alexander Pope, and Laurence Sterne, to name only several of the most notable instances. And, in all...