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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454421703321

Autore

Rousseau Jean-Jacques <1712-1778.>

Titolo

Autobiographical, scientific, religious, moral, and literary writings [[electronic resource] /] / Jean-Jacques Rousseau ; translated and edited by Christopher Kelly

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hanover, N.H., : Dartmouth College Press, : University Press of New England, c2006

ISBN

1-61168-282-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (361 p.)

Collana

The collected writings of Rousseau ; ; v. 12

Altri autori (Persone)

KellyChristopher <1950->

Disciplina

848/.509

Soggetti

Authors, French

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Translated from the French.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Chronology of Works in Volume 12; Introduction; Note on the Text; Autobiographical Writings; Autobiographical Poems; The Orchard of Madame the Baronne de Warens; Letter to M. Bordes; Enigma; Letter to Monsieur Parisot; Quatrain for One of His Portraits; The Banterer; Biographical Fragment; My Portrait; Response to the Letters Written from the Mountain, Published at Geneva, under this title: Sentiment of the Citizens; Notes for the Reveries; On the Art of Enjoying and Other Fragments; Various Writings; Travel Notebook

[Declaration Intended for a Journal]Memorative Note on the Illness and Death of M. Deschamps; Sentiments of the Public Toward Me in the Various Estates that Compose It; Declaration Relative to DiVerent Reprints of His Works; Memorandum Written in the Month of February 1777; Writings on Science; Course on Geography; Response to the Anonymous Memorandum; Memorandum Presented to M. de Mably on the Education of M. his Son; Plan for the Education of Monsieur de Sainte-Marie; Rousseau to the abbé Guillaume-Thomas-François Raynal; Treatise on the Sphere; The New Daedalus

Writings on Religion and MoralityFragments on God and Revelation; On God; Prayers; Memorandum Delivered April 19, 1742, to Monsignor Boudet, Antonine; Fiction or Allegorical Fragment on Revelation;



Fragment on the Infinite Power of God; Moral Letters; Notes on Helvétius's On the Mind; Literary Works; Queen Whimsical; The Loves of Claire and Marcellin; The Little Savoyard;  or, The Life of Claude Noyer; On Eloquence; Idea of Method in the Composition of a Book; Lexicological Remarks; On Women; A Household on rue Saint-Denis

Essay on the Important Events of Which Women Have Been the Secret CauseAdvice to a Curate; Funeral Oration for His Most Serene Highness Monseigneur The Duke of Orléans; Letters to Sara; Remarks on the Letters on the English and the French; Various Fragments; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Noteworthy short pieces from Rousseau, most of which have never been translated into English before now.