Styles of Enlightenment - Taste, Politics and Authorship in Eighteenth-Century France

Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Prologue: Boudoir and Tribune 16 1 A Faded Coquette: Marivaux and the Philosophes 45 2 Fakes, Impostors, and Beaux Esprits: Conversation's Backstage 59 3 The Sly and the Coy Mistress: Style and Manner from F lon to Diderot 85 4 Capturing Fireside Conversation: Diderot and Marivaux's Stylistic Challenge 113 5 Grace and the Epistemology of Confused Perception 141 6 Between Paris and Rome: Montesquieu's Poetry of History 167 7 Montesquieu for the Masses, or Implanting False Memory 594 8 Everlasting Theatricality: Arlequin and the Untamed Parterre 221 Epilogue: The Costume of Modernity 252 Notes 263 Index 331