Approaches to teaching Rousseau's Confessions and Reveries of the solitary walker /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: O'Neal, John C., Mostefai, Ourida
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2003.
Series:Approaches to teaching world literature ; 81.
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Table of Contents:
  • The confessional mode in autobiography: Saint Augustine, Rousseau, and Benjamin Franklin
  • Comparing prefaces: Rousseau versus Montaigne
  • An intertextual approach to teaching Rousseau's Confessions
  • Teaching Rousseau's Confessions in translation
  • "Tout le monde se tut": problems of rhetoric in Rousseau's autobiographical works
  • From Reverie to Confession: writing and reading a life story
  • The dangers of telling it all
  • Public prosecutor Servan and the reception of the Confessions
  • The author as celebrity and outcast: authorship and autobiography in Rousseau
  • Truth and the other in Rousseau's Confessions
  • Rousseau's lottery
  • Genre and feminine duplicity in the Confessions
  • The mechanics of language: personification in the Reveries
  • The perceptual metamorphosis of the solitary walker
  • The public and the self: Rousseau and romanticism
  • Sympathy and sensibility in Rousseau's Sixth walk and Wordsworth's "The old Cumberland beggar"
  • From the Solitary walker to the Flaneur: Baudelaire's caricature of Rousseau
  • Altered states
  • Reveries of idleness
  • Reading Rousseau's women: autobiography and femininity in the Confessions
  • A brief chronology of Rousseau's life, with selected corresponding page references from the Confessions and Reveries
  • Annotated list of Rousseau's other works mentioned in the Essays (and discussed in the Confessions).