- Uniform Title
- Rousseau's hand (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Rousseau's hand (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-215) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2013474901
- OCLC
- ssj0001167511
- Author
Goodden, Angelica.
- Title
Rousseau's hand [electronic resource] : the crafting of a writer / Angelica Goodden.
- Imprint
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Edition
First edition.
- Description
1 online resource (238 pages)
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-215) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
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