Rousseau’s Venetian Story: An Essay Upon Art and Truth in Les Confessions

Author: Madeleine B. Ellis

Publisher: Johns Hopkins

Year: 1996

ISBN: Not applicable

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good, slight foxing to the side of the pages. No markings or highlighting. Text is clear and visible.

Dust Jacket condition: Dust Jacket. Clean, tight & bright. NO ink names, bookplates, DJ tears etc. Price is unclipped.

Language: English

Page Count: 199

Details: First edition

Synopsis: This book contains of a literary study of Rousseau’s account of his diplomatic experiences in Venice, contained in Book VII of the Confessions ad written in 1970. The methos udes in this study is a collation of the text of the confessions with contemporary correspondence and othe documentation to show how discrepancies between the 2 have artistic implications.