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Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Political Literature in Colonial : America Revised Edition

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Dame, Frederick W.
Published
Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, 1995.
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1 online resource (228 pages)
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Contents
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU AND POLITICAL LITERATURE IN COLONIAL AMERICA -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgement -- Exordium -- Proem -- Chapter One: A Guide Towards Understanding -- Chapter Two: Political Writings From The English Colonial Period Through The Revolutionary Period -- Chapter Three: Intellectual Reactionism to Revolutionary Events -- Chapter Four: The Beginnings of American National Character and the Call For An Indigenous American Literature. and Chapter Five: The Melody of Political Expression The Special Case of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and American Colonial Music -- Chapter Six: Rousseau's Significance in the Political Literature of Colonial America and his Influence on the Development of an American Literary Tradition -- German Summary -- Appendix I: A Selected List of Rousseau's Important and Interesting Works -- Appendix II: Jean Jacques Rousseau's Vita -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
Summary
This completely revised and expanded edition examines the political thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau within the framework of Romanticism and how it applies to the areas of nature, human nature, society, and political development. It traces his influence and non-influence in the writings of Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, the Connecticut Wits (especially Joel Barlow), Royall Tyler, and Hugh Henry Brackenridge. It places emphasis on where these writers overlap and disagree. Applicable quotations? but not taken out of context - from the original French of Rousseau's works Émi.
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9780773418882 (electronic bk.)
0773418881 (electronic bk.)
0773489193
9780773489196
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