The Cambridge Companion to the French Enlightenment

Daniel Brewer, Department of French and Italian, University of Minnesota, has published widely in the area of eighteenth-century French literature and culture. He is author of The Enlightenment Past: Reconstructing Eighteenth-Century French Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2008) and co-editor of L'esprit créateur, an international journal of French and Francophone literature and culture.

• Chronology; 1. The Enlightenment today? Daniel Brewer; 2. Private lives, public space: a new social history of the Enlightenment Antoine Lilti; 3. Anthropology Andrew Curran; 4. Commerce Paul Cheney; 5. Science J. B. Shank; 6. Political thought Dan Edelstein; 7. Sex and gender, feeling and thinking: imagining women as intellectuals Julie Candler Hayes; 8. Religion Charly Coleman; 9. Art and aesthetic theory: claiming Enlightenment as viewers and critics Jennifer Milam; 10. Enlightenment literature Thomas DiPiero; 11. Philosophe/philosopher Stéphane Van Damme; 12. Music Downing A. Thomas; 13. Architecture and the Enlightenment Anthony Vidler; 14. Medicine and the body in the French Enlightenment Anne Vila; 15. Space, geography, and the global French Enlightenment Charles W. J. Withers; Guide to further reading.

'Daniel Brewer, a leading expert on the French Age of Enlightenment, has edited a volume aimed at offering a complete overview and introduction not just to the eighteenth century and its ideas, but also to the historiographical construction of the concept of the Enlightenment … [this book] will be a very useful resource and reference for students, whilst representing for scholars a most welcome synthesis of the debates on the Enlightenment from the 1789 Revolution onwards, as well as a timely update on what the Enlightenment is considered to be today.' Richard Langer, Forum for Modern Language Studies