Publication Report
(John T. Scott, Publications Director)
Publication of Rousseau and ‘l’Infâme’
The edited volume based upon the 2003 colloquium of the Rousseau Association has just been accepted for publication by Rodopi Press. The volume is edited by Ourida Mostefai and John T. Scott. The volume is tentatively scheduled for publication in Fall 2008.
All Rousseau Association members who have paid their dues for the last two years (2007 and 2008) will receive a copy of the volume as part of their membership.
Publication of The Nature of Rousseau’s ‘Rêveries’
The edited volume based upon the 2005 colloquium of the Rousseau Association was published in March 2008. The volume is edited by John C. O’Neal and is titled The Nature of Rousseau’s ‘Rêveries’:Physical, human, aesthetic.
All Rousseau Association members who have paid their dues for the last two years (2007 and 2008) will receive a copy of the volume as part of their membership.
Please join me again in congratulating John O’Neal on this fine publication by the Rousseau Association.
Table of Contents
Introduction
I. Nature in Rousseau’s Rêveries
A. Cook, The ‘Septième promenade’ of the Rêveries: a peculiar account of Rousseau’s botany?
D. Johnson, Rousseau and landscape painting in France
J. C. O’Neal, Nature as refuge in Rousseau’s Rêveries du promeneur solitaire
II. Nature and human nature in Rousseau’s Rêveries
J.-F. Perrin, ‘Les opérations que font les physiciens’ : physique de l’homme naturel selon les Rêveries du promeneur solitaire
J.-L. Guichet, Nature et origine : l’accident de Ménilmontant
N. Lee, A dream of human nature
III. Human nature in Rousseau’s Rêveries
J. Berchtold, Le carrosse et le jardinier : nature et dénaturation dans la ‘Deuxième promenade’
F. Miller, Forced into freedom: Rousseau’s strange self-portrait in the Rêveries
J. T. Scott, Rousseau’s quixotic quest in the Rêveries du promeneur solitaire
L. Mall, ‘Dieu est juste; il veut que je souffre; et il sait que je suis innocent’: le problème du mal dans les Rêveries de Rousseau
S. Romanowski, Un étranger pas comme les autres: la voix du maître
Ph. Stewart, ‘Ébranlé mais non convaincu’: Rousseau parmi les philosophes
K. Inston, Nature as the possibility of change and resistance
O. Mostefai, De Vincennes à Ménilmontant : promenade et projet autobiographique dans les Rêveries du promeneur solitaire
Z. Trachtenberg, The exile and the moss-trooper: Rousseau and Thoreau on walking in nature
IV. The Formal nature of Rousseau’s Rêveries
J. Swenson, The solitary walker and the invention of lyrical prose
C. Martin, De rêveries en promenades: esssai d’étude générique à partir des Rêveries du promeneur solitaire
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