Approaches to Teaching Rousseau's Confessions and Reveries of the Solitary Walker

by O'Neal, John C.

• ISBN13: 9780873529112
• ISBN10: 0873529111
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-01
• Publisher: Modern Language Assn of Amer

Table of Contents

Preface to the Series	ix
Preface to the Volume	xi
Note on Page References and Abbreviations	xii
Acknowledgments	xiii
PART ONE: MATERIALS John C. O'Neal and Ourida Mostefai
The Place of the Confessions and the Rêveries in Rousseau's Oeuvre	3	(2)
Editions	5	(1)
Rousseau's Correspondence	6	(1)
Bibliographies	6	(1)
Background Reading	7	(2)
Critical Studies	9	(1)
Audiovisual and Other Aids	9	(6)
PART TWO: APPROACHES
Introduction	15	(6)
John C. O'Neal
Teaching Rousseau's Autobiographical Writing
The Confessional Mode in Autobiography: Saint Augustine, Rousseau, and Benjamin Franklin	21	(7)
Jean Perkins
Comparing Prefaces: Rousseau versus Montaigne	28	(5)
Mary Ellen Birken
An Intertextual Approach to Teaching Rousseau's Confessions	33	(6)
Guillemette Johnston
Teaching Rousseau's Confessions in Translation	39	(5)
Christopher Kelly
From the Confessions to the Rêveries
"Tout le Monde Se Tut": Problems of Rhetoric in Rousseau's Autobiographical Works	44	(6)
Michael O'Dea
From Reverie to Confession: Writing and Reading a Life Story	50	(5)
Byron R. Wells
Problems of Reception
The Dangers of Telling It All	55	(7)
Patrick Coleman
Public Prosecutor Servan and the Reception of the Confessions	62	(6)
Raymond Trousson
The Author as Celebrity and Outcast: Authorship and Autobiography in Rousseau	68	(5)
Ourida Mostefai
Close Readings
Truth and the Other in Rousseau's Confessions	73	(6)
Christie McDonald
Rousseau's Lottery	79	(5)
Thomas M. Kavanagh
Genre and Feminine Duplicity in the Confessions	84	(6)
Sarah Herbold
The Mechanics of Language: Personification in the Rêveries	90	(6)
Virginia E. Swain
The Perceptual Metamorphosis of the Solitary Walker	96	(8)
John C. O'Neal
Comparative Approaches
The Public and the Self: Rousseau and Romanticism	104	(6)
Carl Fisher
Sympathy and Sensibility in Rousseau's Sixth Walk and Wordsworth's "The Old Cumberland Beggar"	110	(5)
Lorraine J. Clark
From the Solitary Walker to the Flâneur: Baudelaire's Caricature of Rousseau	115	(6)
Jean Starobinski
Contemporary Critical Approaches
Altered States	121	(6)
Marie-Hélène Huet
Rêveries of Idleness	127	(5)
Pierre Saint-Amand
Reading Rousseau's Women: Autobiography and Femininity in the Confessions	132
Christine Roulston
Appendix
A Brief Chronology of Rousseau's Life, with Selected Corresponding Page References from the Confessions and Rêveries	137	(3)
An Annotated List of Rousseau's Other Works Mentioned in the Essays (and Discussed in the Confessions)	140	(3)
Notes on Contributors	143	(4)
Survey Participants	147	(2)
Works Cited	149	(6)
Index	155