The biennial meeting of the Rousseau Association, held this year in Los Angeles, June 25-28, had as its theme "Rousseau's Legacies." In his paper for this conference, "Saint-Preux Becomes a Woman: Gender-Bending in Rousseau’s La Nouvelle Héloïse" Professor of French John C. O'Neal argues against the depiction of Rousseau as a misogynist by illustrating the profoundly transgendered qualities of the male protagonist in Rousseau's best-selling novel.
The paper is part of a chapter O'Neal is currently writing on gender confusion for his forthcoming book The Progressive Poetics of Confusion in the French Enlightenment.
The paper is part of a chapter O'Neal is currently writing on gender confusion for his forthcoming book The Progressive Poetics of Confusion in the French Enlightenment.
