Representing private lives of the Enlightenment
By: edited by Andrew Kahn
Series: SVEC -- 2010:11; SVEC -- 2010:11.
Publisher: Voltaire Foundation
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9780729410038
Subjects: Privacy in literature; Intellectual life; History; Enlightenment; Privacy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-330) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the problem of private life  -- Andrew Kahn; title: Historians and eighteenth-century private life : an overview  -- Sarah Maza; title: Intimate, deprived, uncivilised : Diderot and the publication of the private moment  -- Caroline Warman; title: Inventing private lives : the representation of private lives in French vies privées  -- Olivier Ferret; title: The private life of criminals  -- Lise Andries; title: La nouvelle Héloïse and Wolmar's project : transforming passion into "familiarité fraternelle"  -- Alison Oliver; title: Private life, personal liberty and sexual crime in eighteenth-century Venice: the case of Gaetano Franceschini  -- Larry Wolff; title: Handling sin in eighteenth-century Russia  -- Viktor Zhivov; title: Writing, ranks and the eighteenth-century Russian gentry experience  -- Irina Reyfman; title: Private walks and public gazes : Enlightenment and the use of gardens in eighteenth-century Russia  -- Andreas Schönle; title: Embracing and escaping the material : genre painting, objects and private life in eighteenth-century France  -- Mark Ledbury; title: Eccentricity and the self : private characters in English public portraiture  -- Shearer West; title: Friendship and materialism in the French Enlightenment  -- Adam Sutcliffe; title: Captivating Enlightenment : eighteenth-century children's books and the private life of the child  -- M.O. Grenby; title: Schiller, gonorrhoea and original sin in the emotional life of a Russian nobleman -- Andrei Zorin.