Rousseau’s Hand explores Rousseau’s involvement in and promotion of craft in the context of the technological developments of the Enlightenment and his own European celebrity as a writer.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“A compelling and accessible work for students and scholars of French literature and eighteenth-century studies, this monograph is a significant contribution: Goodden successfully disentangles the complexity of Rousseau’s navigation of the paradoxical relationships between antimaterialism and craft, useful artistic creation and leisure, and his condemnation of the excesses of modernity versus the modern as it appears in his works.” —French Review
Review
“A compelling and accessible work for students and scholars of French literature and eighteenth-century studies, this monograph is a significant contribution: Goodden successfully disentangles the complexity of Rousseau’s navigation of the paradoxical relationships between antimaterialism and craft, useful artistic creation and leisure, and his condemnation of the excesses of modernity versus the modern as it appears in his works.” —French Review
From the Publisher
Angelica Goodden,Fellow, St Hilda’s College, OxfordAngelica Goodden, a Fellow of St Hilda’s College, Oxford, has written several books on aspects of 18th- and 19th-century culture in France along with biographies of the artists Louise Vigee Le Brun and Angelica Kauffman.
About the Author
Angelica Goodden,Fellow, St Hilda’s College, OxfordAngelica Goodden, a Fellow of St Hilda’s College, Oxford, has written several books on aspects of 18th- and 19th-century culture in France along with biographies of the artists Louise Vigee Le Brun and Angelica Kauffman.
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