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Rousseau's Aesthetics of Feeling: Time, Place, and the Arts in Julie Ou La Nouvelle Heloise
Rousseau's Aesthetics of Feeling Time Place and the Arts in Julie Ou La Nouvelle Heloise Author:Karen Sullivan This study breaks new ground by focusing on the role of the arts in Rousseau's novel, "Julie ou la Nouvelle Heloise", and through them demonstrates the underlying consistency of his thought. Although he never elaborated a formal aesthetic doctrine, Rousseau's ideas on the arts provide the foundation for the novel and can be discerned therein. Mo... more »ving between his theoretical and literary writings, this study reveals how Rousseau achieved his aesthetic and ethical goals, examining his alternation between the roles of censor and champion of the arts.« less