April 13, 2004

That Rousseau broadcast

Posted by Chris

The programme about Rousseau that I blogged about the other day is available on-line (though I think this link may only work for about a week). I thought it was pretty good on the whole. Though it didn’t resolve the Derbyshire—Staffordshire controversy, it should have made listeners curious to read or re-read Rousseau’s autobiographies and there were some entertaining musical excerpts as well as contributions from such eminent Rousseau scholars as John Scott and John Hope Mason. Recommended.

Posted on April 13, 2004 11:06 AM UTC
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As a matter of curiousity, WGSebald’s walking tour The Rings of Saturn is structurally patterned after Rousseau’s Reveries of a Solitary Walker; has this any relevance to time spent in Whate’ershire?

Posted by nnyhav · April 13, 2004 02:14 PM

The walks of the Reveries take place around Paris, though the text refers to many other locations that Rousseau was familiar with. And they belong to a later period of his life than his stay in England.

Posted by Chris Bertram · April 13, 2004 02:53 PM
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