This volume explores a variety of methods for teaching Rousseau's Confessions and Reveries of the Solitary Walker . Twenty contributions from educators discuss such topics as the author as celebrity and outcast, Baudelaire's caricature of Rousseau, and representations of femininity in the Confessions . A special section assesses editions in French and translations into English, and reviews other materials such as critical studies and audiovisual resources. Annotation �2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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John C. O'Neal is professor of French at Hamilton College. His publications include Changing Minds: The Shifting Perception of Culture in Eighteenth-Century France(2002), The Authority of Experience: Sensationist Theory in the French Enlightenment(1996), and Seeing and Observing: Rousseau's Rhetoric of Perception(1985). O'Neal was named a Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Acad�miques in 1998 by the French minister of national education. Ourida Mostefai is associate professor of French at Boston College. She is the editor of Lectures de La Nouvelle H�lo�se / Reading La Nouvelle H�lo�se Today (1993) and the author of Le Citoyen de Gen�ve et la R�publique des Lettres: etude de la controverse autour de la Lettre Lettre � d'Alembert de Jean-Jacques Rosseau (2003). Mostefai has served as associate editor and editor of Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, as well as director of publications and past president of the Rousseau Association. She is a former president of the Society for Eighteenth-Century French Studies.

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