Representing Private Lives of the Enlightenment

• Andrew Kahn, Introduction: The problem of private lifeSarah Maza, Historians and eighteenth-century private life: an overviewCaroline Warman, Intimate, deprived, uncivilised: Diderot and the publication of the private momentOlivier Ferret, Inventing private lives: the representation of private lives in French Vies privéesLise Andries, The private life of criminalsAlison Oliver, La Nouvelle Héloïse and Wolmar’s project: transforming passion into ‘familiarité fraternelle’Larry Wolff, Private life, personal liberty and sexual crime in eighteenth-century Venice: the case of Gaetano FranceschiniViktor Zhivov, Handling sin in eighteenth-century RussiaIrina Reyfman, Writing, ranks and the eighteenth-century Russian gentry experienceAndreas Schönle, Private walks and public gazes: Enlightenment and the use of gardens in eighteenth-century RussiaMark Ledbury, Embracing and escaping the material: genre painting, objects and private life in eighteenth-century FranceShearer West, Eccentricity and the self: private character in English public portraitureAdam Sutcliffe, Friendship and materialism in the French EnlightenmentM.O. Grenby, Captivating Enlightenment: eighteenth-century children’s books and the private life of the childAndrei Zorin, Schiller, gonorrhoea and original sin in the emotional life of a Russian noblemanSummariesBibliographyIndex

'…this new collection, while unavoidably in dialogue with its illustrious predecessor, brings a freshness to the subject that moves away from the traditional view of “private” as domestic and so in opposition to the public sphere, towards a whole series of alternative definitions of privacy and individuality.'- MLN