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Tuman focuses on Rousseau’s youthful erotic dalliance with Madame Basile and his much longer, more formative relationship with Madame de Warens, the older woman who became both his Maman and, alas, much to his distress, his lover.
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Damrosch, Leo. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius. New York: Mariner Books, 2007.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Confessions. Translated by J. M. Cohen. London: Penguin Books, 1953.
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Tuman, M. (2019). The Adoring Son in Love, 1—Rousseau. In: The Sensitive Son and the Feminine Ideal in Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15701-2_3
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