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This book claims to contain one of the most important literary revelations ever made. The author has discovered that the original documents upon which the existing view of Rousseau’s life and character is based were entirely falsified by his enemies, and photographs are given to show where the corrections have been made. The result is that the whole story of Rousseau’s life will have to be reconsidered, and that all existing biographies must be rectified.
The author contributes an introduction in which she states the purpose and the method of her new criticism. The body of the book is divided into five parts: Part I. showing the actual conditions of the question before the new criticism commenced; Part II. giving details of the historical inquiry, documentary proofs that Madame D’Epinay’s “Memoirs” represent an instrument of the plot to create a false reputation for Rousseau, and to hand it down to posterity; Part III. is devoted to the plan and purpose of the false history of Rousseau interpolated in Madame D’Epinay’s work, the mythical Jean Jacques of Grimm and Diderot, and Diderot’s Tablettes and the legend of Rousseau’s seven crimes; Part IV. deals with the legend of Rousseau’s seven crimes; whilst Part V. treats of the correspondance littéraire: the second instrument of the plot.
A number of photographs and facsimiles of manuscripts are supplied with the text.
New Carlyle Letters.
Carlyle and the London Library
A Collection of Original Letters to
W. D. Christie on the Founding of