| Section Title | Page | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Cover | 1 | |
| Half Title | 2 | |
| Title Page | 4 | |
| Copyright Page | 5 | |
| Contents | 6 | |
| List of tables | 8 | |
| List of illustrations | 9 | |
| Abbreviations | 12 | |
| I. The Discursive culture: reaction and interaction, text and context | 14 | |
| Introduction | 16 | |
| Chain reactions in the eighteenth century: reading Racine, Marot and Horace | 22 | |
| Anecdote in history: the case of Voltaire’s Histoire de Charles XII | 32 | |
| Contemporary reactions to Jean-Georges Noverre’s ballets d’action | 44 | |
| Fragonard and pastiche: the case of the Girl in Spanish costume at Dulwich | 60 | |
| Chains of influence, chains of allusion: case studies of clandestine rhetoric in and around the Encyclopédie | 78 | |
| ‘Le grand oubli de Suzanne Simonin’: a premature case of amnesia in Diderot’s La Religieuse | 96 | |
| Illustrations as reactions: three nineteenth-century readings of La Nouvelle Héloïse | 116 | |
| Reacting to the Revolution: the example of Marmontel and Mercier | 146 | |
| The role of the listener in the musical aesthetics of the Revolution | 156 | |
| II. Women’s studies | 172 | |
| Violence against actresses: evidence from Campardon and others | 174 | |
| Lambert, Puisieux, Leprince de Beaumont, Epinay and the legacy of their educational manuals in the nineteenth century | 192 | |
| Challenging male violence and the double standard in the courts: the separation case of Dame D (Paris, 1788) | 222 | |
| III. Montesquieu | 254 | |
| Montesquieu et ses sources: Alexandre, l’empire perse, les Guèbres et l’irrigation (De l’esprit des lois X.13-14; XVIII.7) | 256 | |
| IV. Language and culture | 276 | |
| From the corruption of French to the cultural distinctiveness of German: the controversy over Prémontval’s Préservatif (1759) | 278 | |
| Reconquering Peru: eighteenth-century translations of Graffigny’s Lettres d’une Péruvienne | 304 | |
| Summaries | 324 |
Enlightenment and tradition; Women's studies; Montesquieu
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