Charlottesville: U of Virginia P 20...

Charlottesville: U of Virginia P 2000 279 pp ISBN 0-8139-1975-4 $4500

Creative writing placed in the service of any scholarly treatment of creative writing, whether fiction or autobiography, has a aptitude to be somewhat problematic. to such a degree too the postulation of direct influence as a defining premise for the treatment of an author's work where no of the like kind direct influence can be reasonably demonstrated. Unfortunately of that kind missing information lies at the heart of Eugene Stelzig's investigation which postulates and then speculates extensively onward significant links between Rousseau's