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Romanticism and Civilization
Love, Marriage, and Family in Rousseau’s Julie
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2017
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Romanticism and Civilization examines romantic alternatives to modern life in Rousseau’s foundational novel Julie. It argues that Julie is a response to the ills of modern civilization, and that Rousseau saw that the Enlightenment’s combination of science and of democracy degraded human life by making it bourgeois. The bourgeois is man uprooted by science and attached to nothing but himself. He lives a commercial life and his materialism and calculations penetrate all aspects of his existence. He is neither citizen, nor family man, nor lover in any serious sense: his life is meaningless. Rousseau’s romanticism in Julie is an attempt to find connectedness through the sentiments of private life and wholeness through love, marriage, and family.
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Edition
1/2017
Copyright Year
2017
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-2747-7
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-2748-4
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
107
Product Type
Monograph
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Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 10
Chapter One: The Bourgeois, Nature, and Civic Virtue No access Pages 11 - 44
Chapter Two: Rousseau’s Romantic Reform of Christian Piety, Aristocratic Honor,and Patriarchal Authority No access Pages 45 - 72
