The confessional mode in autobiography: Saint Augustine, Rousseau, and Benjamin Franklin
Comparing prefaces: Rousseau versus Montaigne
An intertextual approach to teaching Rousseau's Confessions
Teaching Rousseau's Confessions in translation
"Tout le monde se tut": problems of rhetoric in Rousseau's autobiographical works
From Reverie to Confession: writing and reading a life story
The dangers of telling it all
Public prosecutor Servan and the reception of the Confessions
The author as celebrity and outcast: authorship and autobiography in Rousseau
Truth and the other in Rousseau's Confessions
Genre and feminine duplicity in the Confessions
The mechanics of language: personification in the Reveries
The perceptual metamorphosis of the solitary walker
The public and the self: Rousseau and romanticism
Sympathy and sensibility in Rousseau's Sixth walk and Wordsworth's "The old Cumberland beggar"
From the Solitary walker to the Flaneur: Baudelaire's caricature of Rousseau
Reading Rousseau's women: autobiography and femininity in the Confessions
A brief chronology of Rousseau's life, with selected corresponding page references from the Confessions and Reveries
Annotated list of Rousseau's other works mentioned in the Essays (and discussed in the Confessions).
