Abbreviations Used in Footnotes
| cup | Cambridge University Press |
| CW | Collected Writings (as in Rousseau, Collected Writings, followed by the volume and page numbers) |
| oup | Oxford University Press |
| pmla | Publications of the Modern Language Association |
| svec | Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century (the abbreviation was the title of an annual series, published by the Voltaire Foundation, Oxford, with each issue numbered according to the year to which it belonged, as in, e. g. svec 2004: 04, meaning the fourth issue of svec published in 2004, and, where no subsequent pagination is indicated, this means that the issue in question was a single monograph). |
| UP | University Press |
A Note on Citations
In quoting translated passages from Rousseau’s texts, I have usually indicated the source as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Collected Writings, 14 vols., ed. Christopher Kelly, Roger D. Masters, Philip Stewart, et. al. (Hanover, New Hampshire and London, University Presses of New England, 1987–2007) and, in the relevant footnote, have added the title, volume number and pagination of the work in question. This edition gives helpful cross-references to the standard French-language edition of Rousseau’s works, namely Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Œuvres complètes, ed. Bernard Gagnebin & Marcel Raymond, 5 vols. (Paris, 1958–96). When it seemed to be appropriate, I have also added the French original to the relevant footnote. References to these two, currently standard but soon to be superseded, editions have been abbreviated to CW and OC in the footnotes. Occasionally, I have modified translations in the light of earlier, often near contemporary, English versions when it seemed to me that they captured the meaning of the French more effectively and I have signalled this at the relevant places. Full details of other editions of Rousseau’s works that I have used are available in the Bibliography.