Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Political Literature in Colonial [electronic resource] : America Revised Edition

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dame, Frederick W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Intellectual life--18th century.

United States.

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778--Influence.

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (228 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Political Literature in Colonial

Place of Publication:

Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press, 1995.

Language Note:

Summary in German.

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

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; 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 TraditionGerman Summary; Appendix I: A Selected List of Rousseau's Important and Interesting Works; Appendix II: Jean Jacques Rousseau's Vita; Selected Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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ISBN:

0-7734-1888-1

OCLC:

811507403