Identify and explain the Romantic elements in Rousseau’s writing Reading preparation: “Jean-Jacques Rousseau” and Confessions, Part One Puchner, Martin the Norton Anthrology World literature vol. 2, edited by Peter Simon, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2013

According to the introduction on Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Rousseau “proposed radically unsettling ideas about human nature, justice, and progress that disrupted the dominant Enlightenment thinking of the moment and helped to spark the Romantic Movement”. Choose one event in Rousseau’s life and explain how Rousseau’s view of the event embodies Romantic ideals. In your response, provide specific details from the reading to strengthen your argument.

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