Rousseauvian remains

History Workshop Journal

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 134-151

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References (46)

1. Edmund Burke, A Letter to a Member of the National Assembly (1791), in The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke. Volume VIII: The French Revolution, Oxford, ed. L. G. Mitchell, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1989, p. 310; p. 314.
2. Burke, National Assembly, p. 310.
3. Burke, National Assembly, p. 310.
4. Burke, National Assembly, p. 315.
5. Burke, National Assembly, p. 318.
6. Monthly Magazine: Reflecting Men and Manners. With Strictures on their epitome, The Stage VIII, Aug. 1799, p. 70.
7. Monthly Mirror, Aug. 1799, p. 72.
8. Monthly Mirror, Aug. 1799, p. 72.
9. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Œuvres Complètes vol. 1, ed. Bernard Gagnebin and Marcel Raymond, Gallimard, Paris, 1959. Further references to the works of Rousseau will be from this edition; volume and page numbers will be given parenthetically. All translations from the French originals are my own.
10. William Hazlitt, Conversations of James Northcote, Esq., RA, London, Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830, in The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, ed. P. P. Howe, J. Dent and Sons, London and Toronto, 1930-4, vol. 16, p. 278.
11. See, for example: Henri Roddier, J.-J. Rousseau en Angleterre au XVIIIème siècle, Boivin et Companie, Paris, 1950;
12. Jacques Voisine, J.-J. Rousseau en Angleterre à l'époque romantique: les écrits autobiographique et la légende, Didier, Paris, 1956;
13. Edward Duffy, Rousseau in England: the Context for Shelley's Critique of the Enlightenment, University of California Press, Berkeley, CA and London, 1979.
14. Gregory Dart's Rousseau, Robespierre and English Romanticism, Cambridge University Press, 1999, offers a more nuanced account, but concentrates exclusively upon the textual response of the major Romantic writers to Rousseau's confessional politics.
15. See the 'Introduction' and Appendix VI: Editions in English' of Julie or the New Héloïse: Letters of Two Lovers who Live in a Small Town at the Foot of the Alps, transl., Philip Stewart and Jean Vaché, University Press of New England, Hanover, NH, 1997.
16. See Robert D. Mayo's account of English periodical translations in The English Novel in the Magazines 1740-1815, Oxford University Press, London, 1962, pp. 180-2.
17. Critical Review XI, Jan. 1761, p. 65.
18. Laura; or, Original Letters. In 2 Vols. A Sequel to The Eloisa of J.-J. Rousseau, From the French was published anonymously in 1790.
19. For the circulation of La Nouvelle Héloïse see Claire Grogan, 'The Politics of Seduction in British Fiction of the 1790s: the Female Reader and Julie; ou La Nouvelle Héloïse', Eighteenth-Century Fiction 11, 1999, pp. 459-76.
20. James H. Warner, 'The Reaction in Eighteenth-Century England to Rousseau's Two Discours', Proceedings of the Modern Language Association 48, 1933, p. 475.
21. Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (Edinburgh, 1759), ed. D. D. Raphael and A. L. Macfie, Liberty Fund, Indianapolis, IN, 1984, p. 116.
22. Thomas Martyn, Dissertations upon the Aeneids (1760), i, quoted in Mark Salber Phillips, Society and Sentiment: Genres of Historical Writing in Britain, 1740-1820, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2000, p. 132.
23. In 'Readers Respond to Rousseau: the Fabrication of Romantic Sensibility', a chapter of The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History, Basic Books, New York, 1984, Robert Darnton discusses the response of Jean Ranson to Rousseau's works, but disregards the gender politics and implications of male reaction (pp. 215-56).
24. See Philip Carter's thorough investigation of eighteenth-century 'manliness' in Men and the Emergence of Polite Society, Britain 1660-1800, Harlow, Pearson, 2001.
25. Correspondance complète de Jean-Jacques Rousseau, ed. R. A. Leigh, Institut et Musée Voltaire and Voltaire Foundation, Genève and Oxford, 1965-89, vol. 22, p. 359. Further references to correspondence to, by, and about Rousseau will be from this edition. Volume and page numbers will be cited parenthetically.
26. A thorough bibliographical analysis of publishing canniness over the release of Rousseau's Confessions can be found in R. A. Leigh's Unsolved Problems in the Bibliography of J.-J. Rousseau, ed., J. T. A. Leigh, Cambridge University Press, 1990, pp. 114-46.
27. For pre-Revolutionary reception of the Confessions, see: Bernard Gagnebin, 'L'étrange accueil fait au Confessions de Rousseau au XVIIIe siècle', Annales de la Société de Jean-Jacques Rousseau 38, 1969-71, pp. 105-26;
28. Wallace Katz, 'Le Rousseauisme avant la Révolution', Dix-huitième siècle 3, 1971, pp. 205-22;
29. James H. Warner, 'The Basis of J.-J. Rousseau's Contemporaneous Reception in England', Modern Language Notes 55, 1940, pp. 270-80.
30. Critical Review 55, May 1783, p. 346.
31. European Magazine and London Literary Journal III, Oct. 1783, pp. 276-7; 276.
32. European Magazine, Oct. 1783, p. 276.
33. Appendix to Monthly Review LXVI, Sept. 1782, pp. 530-41; 530.
34. Appendix to Monthly Review, p. 531.
35. Appendix to Monthly Review, p. 535.
36. Monthly Review LXVI, 1782, pp. 227-33; p. 232.
37. Monthly Review, Sept. 1782, p. 229.
38. Monthly Review, Sept. 1782, p. 232.
39. Gentleman's Magazine LVI, Sept. 1786, p. 744.
40. Gentleman's Magazine LVI, Dec. 1786, p. 1, 038.
41. Gentleman's Magazine, Dec. 1786, p. 1, 038.
42. Monthly Review LXXIV, 1786, pp. 132-5; p. 135.
43. Monthly Review LXXIV, 1786, p. 132.
44. Anon., A Tour to Ermenonville; Containing, Besides an Account of the Palace, Gardens, and Curiosities of CHANTILLY, And of the MARQUIS DE GIRARDIN'S beautiful seat of Ermenonville, A Particular description of the Tomb of J. J. ROUSSEAU, With Anecdotes (never before published) of that celebrated and singular Man, T. Becket, London 1785, p. 73. Further references will be given in parenthesis in the text.
45. John Villiers, A Tour through Part of France, Containing a Description of Paris, Cherbourg, and Ermenonville; with a Rhapsody Composed at the Tomb of Rousseau. In a Series of Letters, T. Cadell, London, 1789, p. 213. Further references will be given in parenthesis in the text.
46. To be viewed at Tate Britain, London.