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Rousseau's hand : the crafting of a writer
- Title
- Rousseau's hand : the crafting of a writer / Angelica Goodden.
- Author
- Goodden, Angelica
- Publication
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Book/text | Use in library | JFD 14-760 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-215) and index.
- Contents
- The business of making -- Writing (down) music -- Art or craft? -- Drama and life -- Emile, wealth and wellbeing -- Crafting a self -- The order of insight.
- Call Number
- JFD 14-760
- ISBN
- 0199683832
- 9780199683833
- OCLC
- 830367912
- Author
- Goodden, Angelica.
- Title
- Rousseau's hand : the crafting of a writer / Angelica Goodden.
- Publisher
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Description
- 238 pages ; 23 cm
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Summary
- "Taking as its point of departure the moral and monetary economy of crafsmanship in eighteenth-century Switzerland, this ... study shows how family tradition and his own unfinished apprenticeship to an engraver led Rousseau to a radical questioning of central issues of the day, particularly in light of the moral utilitarianism of his age. Rousseau's hand highlights the vital place of handwork in the artistic and social writings of his middle years -- from novels and plays to treatises and other forms of discourse -- illuminating many matters traditionally seen as inconsistencies in his oeuvre as a whole."--Book jacket.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-215) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 14-760