WorkJean-Jacques Rousseau
Julie, ou la Nouvelle Héloïse [Julie, or the New Heloise] (Amsterdam: Marc-Michel Rey, 1761)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) · Amsterdam: Marc-Michel Rey, 1761
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“Not Werther, not the Nouvelle Heloise, have been assailed with such a storm of indignation as the first-named of these works [Elective Affinities], on the score of gross immorality.”
Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860. · p48
“In a passionate love-struggle she wrestled thus with the genius of De Staël, of Rousseau, of Alfieri, of Petrarch.”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.
Inferred Margaret Fuller engaged with the revolutionary thought and emotive intensity of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose works Julie, ou la Nouvelle Héloïse and Les Confessions profoundly shaped the romantic and philosophical landscape. Rousseau" signifies a deep, personal wrestling with his ideas, echoing the confessional and sentimental traditions prevalent in her Cambridge studies.