Le Geste autobiographique. Écrire sa vie (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles)

Collective work.

Rousseau’s Confessions are often regarded as the founding text of an autobiographical genre, distinguished from memoirs and other forms of life writing. This volume challenges that division by examining the autobiographical gesture across a variety of forms, while also re-evaluating Rousseau’s own undertaking.

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