Textual Allegories
Paul de Man

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Paul de Man’s unpublished monograph study of Rousseau, later substantially
rewritten and published as the second half of Allegories of Reading (1979)
and in journal articles.

The only contiguous, single subject monograph written by de Man during his
lifetime, Textual Allegories was written in Zurich in 1972-1973 while Paul
de Man was on sabbatical from Yale University. The manuscript was never
published by de Man but rather formed the material for later substantially
revised published versions in journal articles and notably in the second
half of Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche,
Rilke and Proust (1979). However, the two texts differ in significant ways
line-by-line and page-by-page.

Textual Allegories was digitized and transcribed under the direction of
Professor Martin McQuillan with a grant from the United Kingdom, Arts and
Humanities Research Council. The transcription is by Dr. Erin Obodiac.

The Paul de Man papers are available for research in the Special Collections
and Archives Reading Room at the UC Irvine Libraries and are described in a
finding aid in the Online Archive of California.

 

The Portable Rousseau
Ed. Paul de Man

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Original English-language translations by Paul and Patricia de Man of
significant texts by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, editorial corrigenda, and drafts
of potential introductory texts.

In 1972 Paul de Man was contracted by Viking Press to edit a collection of
texts by Jean-Jacques Rousseau for their Portable readers series. Paul de
Man and his wife Patricia spent the next ten years working on the
translations for this volume. The collection remained incomplete at the time
of Paul de Man¹s death in 1983. The presentation here of The Portable
Rousseau is based on extant translations by the De Mans and related
editorial papers by Paul de Man.

The Portable Rousseau was digitized under the direction of Professor Martin
McQuillan with a grant from the British Academy.

The Paul de Man papers are available for research in the Special Collections
and Archives Reading Room at the UC Irvine Libraries and are described in a
finding aid in the Online Archive of California.