A biography of the French writer and philosopher who influenced the romantic movement in literature and whose political ideas inspired the leaders of the French

Romanticism and Civilization examines romantic alternatives to modern life in Rousseau’s foundational novel Julie. It argues that Julie is a response to the i

An exploration of the soul in the form of a final meditation on self-understanding and isolation.

Reconstructs the life of the French literary genius whose writing changed opinions and fueled fierce debate on both sides of the Atlantic during the period of t