Karen SULLIVAN, Rousseau's Aesthetics of Feeling:Time, Place and the Arts in Julie ou la Nouvelle Héloïse, Ceredigion (Royaume-Uni), Mellen Press, 2007, 188 p.
ISBN10 0-7734-5317-2
ISBN13 978-0-7734-5317-3
RÉSUMÉ
This study breaks new ground by focusing on the role of the arts inRousseau’s novel, Julie ou la Nouvelle Héloïse, and through themdemonstrates the underlying consistency of his thought. Although henever elaborated a formal aesthetic doctrine, Rousseau’s ideas on thearts provide the foundation for the novel and can be discerned therein.Moving between his theoretical and literary writings, this studyreveals how Rousseau achieved his aesthetic and ethical goals,examining his alternation between the roles of censor and champion ofthe arts.
TABLE DES MATIÈRES
Preface by Pierre Force
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 The Roots of Rosseau’s Aesthetics
2 Music in Julie ou la Nouvelle Héloïse
3 The Visual Arts and the Dangers of Representation
4 Books in the Novel
Conclusion
Bibliography
Appendix
Index
À PROPOS DE L'AUTEUR
Dr. Karen Sullivan is Assistant Professor of French Language andLiterature at Queens College/City University of New York. She completedher Ph.D. in French Literature at Columbia University.