Exploring the conversible world
Subtitle: text and sociability from the Classical Age to the Enlightenment
By: [Elena Russo, special editor for this issue].
Series: Yale French studies -- no. 92
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New Haven, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
Subjects: Enlightenment -- Social aspects; Essay -- Classical period, 1500-1700; Letter writing, Classical; Civilization, Classical, in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: I.; title: Cultural/national/economic paradigms :; title: Les signes galants: a historical reevaluation of galanterie -- Alain Viala ; The; title: figure of France: the politics of sociability in England, 1660-1715 -- Lawrence E. Klein ;; title: Self-love, identification, and the origin of political economy -- Pierre Force -- II.; title: Contagions in the body social : The; title: city and the plague in the age of enlightenment -- Daniel Gordon ;; title: Beyond sympathy: vapors, melancholia, and the pathologies of sensibility in Tissot and Rousseau -- Anne C. Vila -- III.; title: From Préciosité to Republicanism: representations of the public sphere :; title: Civilty and the novel: De Pure's La prétieuse ou le mystère des ruelles -- Françoise Jaouën ; The; title: self, real and imaginary: social sentiment in Marivaux and Hume -- Elena Russo ; The; title: spectator surfaces: tableau and tabloid in Marivaux's Spectateur Français -- Suzanne Rodin Pucci ;; title: Social entropy -- Marie-Hélène Huet ;; title: Between the republic of virtue and the republic of letters: Marie-Jeanne Roland practices Rousseau.