The confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
By: Translated from the French by W. Conyngham Mallory & ornamented with thirteen original engravings from the Jouaust Edition of 1881 by Edmond Hedouin
Contributors: Mallory, W. Conyngham, translator; Hédouin, Ed. (Edmond), 1819-1889
Publisher: Brentano's
Published: 1928
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: French Authors; Biography
Description: Only a few popular autobiographies existed before philosopher, author, and composer Jean-Jacques Rousseau published his Confessions. Rousseau wrote treatises on education and politics as well as novels and operas, and as one of the most influential and controversial of the Enlightenment thinkers, he inspired the leaders of the French Revolution. His memoir is regarded as the first modern autobiography, in which the writer defined his life mainly in terms of his worldly experiences and personal feelings.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Books 1-7; title: v. 2. Books 8-12.