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- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 176
- Publisher
- Penguin (Non-Classics)
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780143037491
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a major Genevois philosopher, writer, and composer of 18th-century Romanticism. His political philosophy influenced the French Revolution and the development of modern political, sociological and educational thought. His novel, *Emile: or, On Education*, which he considered his most important work, is a seminal treatise on the education of the whole person for citizenship. His sentimental novel, Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse, was of great importance to the development of pre-Romanticism and romanticism in fiction. Rousseau's autobiographical writings: his *Confessions*, which initiated the modern autobiography, and his *Reveries of a Solitary Walker* were among the
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