| Samenvatting: | <br/>Research on Rousseau’s innovative last work is changing direction. Long situated in a context of autobiographical writing, its moral and philosophical content is now a major critical preoccupation. <em>The Nature of Rousseau’s ‘Rêveries’: physical, human, aesthetic</em> brings together the work of international specialists to explore new approaches to the defining feature - the ‘nature’ - of the <em>Rêveries. </em> <br/> In essays which range from studies of botany or landscape painting to thematic or stylistic readings, authors re-examine Rousseau’s intellectual understanding of and personal relationship with different conceptions of nature. Drawing connections between this text and earlier theoretical writings, authors analyse not only the philosophical and personal implications of Rousseau’s reflections on the outer world but also and his attempts to examine and validate both his own nature and that of ‘l’homme naturel’. <br/> In <em>The Nature of Rousseau’s ‘Rêveries’: physical, human, aesthetic</em> the contributors offer new insights into the character of Rousseau’s last major work and suggest above all its experimental, elusive quality, hovering between inner and outer worlds, escape and fulfilment, experience and writing. They underline the unique richness of the <em>Rêveries</em>, a work to be situated not simply at the end of Rousseau’s life, but at the very centre of his thought. <br/><br/> List of tables<br/> List of illustrations<br/> John C. O’Neal, Introduction<br/> I. Nature in Rousseau’s <em>Rêveries</em><br/> Alexandra Cook, The ‘Septième promenade’ of the <em>Rêveries</em>: a peculiar account of Rousseau’s botany? <br/> Alexandra Cook, Appendix<br/> Dorothy Johnson, Rousseau and landscape painting in France<br/> John c. O’Neal, Nature as refuge in Rousseau’s <em>Rêveries du promeneur solitaire</em><br/> II. Nature and human nature in Rousseau’s <em>Rêveries</em><br/> Jean-François Perrin, 'Les opérations que font les physiciens’: physique de l’homme naturel selon les <em>Rêveries du promeneur solitaire</em><br/> Jean-Luc Guichet, Nature et origine: l’accident de Ménilmontant<br/> Natasha Lee, A dream of human nature<br/> III. Human nature in Rousseau’s <em>Rêveries</em><br/> Jacques Berchtold, Le carrosse et le jardinier: nature et dénaturation dans la ‘Deuxième promenade’<br/> Fiona Miller, Forced into freedom: Rousseau’s strange self-portrait in the <em>Rêveries</em><br/> John T. Scott, Rousseau’s quixotic quest in the <em>Rêveries du promeneur solitaire</em><br/> Laurence Mall, 'Dieu est juste; il veut que je souffre; et il sait que je suis innocent’: le problème du mal dans les <em>Rêveries</em> de Rousseau<br/> Sylvie Romanowski, Un étranger pas comme les autres: la voix du maître<br/> Philip Stewart, ‘Ebranlé mais non convaincu’: Rousseau parmi les philosophes<br/> Kevin Inston, Nature as the possibility of change and resistance<br/> Ourida Mostefai, De Vincennes à Ménilmontant: promenade et projet autobiographique dans les <em>Rêveries du promeneur solitaire</em><br/> Zev Trachtenberg, The exile and the moss-trooper: Rousseau and Thoreau on walking in nature<br/> IV. The formal or aesthetic nature of Rousseau’s <em>Rêveries</em><br/> James Swenson, The solitary walker and the invention of lyrical prose<br/> Carole Martin, De rêveries en promenades: essai d’étude générique à partir des <em>Rêveries du promeneur solitaire</em><br/> Summaries<br/> Bibliography<br/> Index<br/>
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