| Section Title | Page | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Cover | 1 | |
| Title Page | 2 | |
| Copyright Page | 3 | |
| Contents | 4 | |
| I. Voltaire | 6 | |
| Voltaire after Besterman [Besterman Lecture, 2001] | 8 | |
| Le Contre Voltaire d'Alfieri: la satire L'Antireligioneria | 20 | |
| II. Religion and ideology | 50 | |
| Jansenist themes and influences in Prevost's Cleveland | 52 | |
| Exercices spirituels et quietisme dans Les Confessions du comte de*** de Charles Pinot Duclos | 62 | |
| Virtue and defilement: moral rationalism and sexual prohibitions in the Lettrespersanes | 74 | |
| Sensualisme et apologetique: l'enjeu metaphysique du 'sourd et muet de Chartres' | 118 | |
| Fiasco theorique de Yldeologie chez Destutt de Tracy | 126 | |
| III. Women's studies | 138 | |
| The 'article Geneoe' quarrel and the reticence of French Enlightenment discourse on women in the public realm | 140 | |
| Mme de Sevigne and theJesuits in the siecle des Lumieres | 172 | |
| From pricieuse to mother figure: sentiment, authority and the eighteenth-century salonniere | 184 | |
| Dossier Claude Crebillon - Henriette Marie Stafford | 204 | |
| Conflicting views ofmarriage and spousal abuse in pre-Revolutionary France: the separation case of Jeanne Fouragnan (Toulouse 1782) | 238 | |
| IV. History of the book | 272 | |
| La troisieme edition de l'Histoiredes deuxIndes et ses contrefacons: les contributions de Geneve et Neuchatel | 274 | |
| Theatre beyond privilege: changes in French play publication, 1700-1789 | 304 | |
| V. Passion in the eighteenth century | 354 | |
| Passion: proceedings of the Voltaire Foundation Postgraduate Meeting, March 1999 | 354 | |
| Introduction | 358 | |
| Histoire de la jeunesse du conl1nandeuf de Prevost | 360 | |
| Images de la passion dans Ie Doyen de Killerine de Prevost | 374 | |
| Enonciation feminine et discours sur la passion dans Les Mimoires et aventures d'un homme de qualiti | 388 | |
| From extremes to rigidity: the mechanism of the passions in mid-eighteenth-century French thought | 398 | |
| The nuances of passion in Crebillon's Les Heureux Orphelins | 404 | |
| Quelques observations sur la passion, l'evidence et la certitude dans Ah, quel conte! de Crebillon fils | 414 | |
| The paradox of passion in the abbe Du Bos's Riflexions critiques sur la poisie et sur la peinture | 422 | |
| Passion, sensihilite and Baculard d'Arnaud's Epreuves du sentinzent | 428 | |
| Ecstatic virgins and and bearded mystics: some examples of the expressive head in French painting | 434 | |
| Des lectrices passionnees: lecture feminine et passion dans la litterature fran~aiseau siecle des Lumieres (1730-1860) | 450 | |
| Le silence des passions? Rousseau and Voltaire on the sciences and the arts | 456 | |
| The pathology of passion: women and medicine in Diderot's Encyclopedie | 464 | |
| Mme de Graffigny et les amertumes de la passion, ou un cruel autoportrait dans Les Saturnales | 472 |
Voltaire; Religion and ideology; Women’s studies; History of the book; Passion in the eighteenth century
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