... a stimulating set of interdisciplinary essays concerned to trace the evolution of the private sphere in eighteenth-century Europe.<br /><b><i>The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies</i>, Volume 57</b><br />
This carefully organized and scholarly collection can justifiably claim to have tested out the usefulness of the public/private distinction in a variety of new ways: the result is a thought-provoking read which will contain something of interest to most scholars of the eighteenth century.<br /><b><i>Journal of European Studies</i></b><br />
- Contents
- Preface, Dario Castiglione
- preface, Lesley Sharpe
- this, that and the other - public, social and private in the 17th and 18th centuries, John Brewer
- regendering the republic of letters - private association in the public sphere, 1780-89, Dena Goodman
- addressing the public in 18th-century French fiction, Malcolm Cook
- scandalous femininity - prostitution and 18th-century narrative, Vivien Jones
- the fear of public disorder - marriage between revolution and reaction, Ursula Vogel
- Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel - argumentative strategies in the debate on the rights of women, Lesley Sharpe
- literatures of publicity and the right to freedom of the press in late-18th-century Germany - the case of Karl Friedrich Bahrdt, John Christian Laursen
- censorship and the conception of the public in late-18th-century Germany - or, are censorship and public opinion mutually exclusive?, Edoardo Tortarolo
- opinion's metamorphosis - Hume and the perception of public authority, Dario Castiglione
- an impartial actor - the private and the public sphere in Adam Smith's "Theory of Moral Sentiments", Maria Luisa Pesante
- William Godwin and the idea of historical commemoration - history as public memory and private sentiment, Mark Salber Phillips
- a historical postscript, Jonathan Barry