List of tablesList of illustrationsAbbreviationsI. The Discursive culture: reaction and interaction, text and contextMark Darlow and Caroline Warman (eds), IntroductionRussell Goulbourne, Chain reactions in the eighteenth century: reading Racine, Marot and HoraceWendy Trowbridge, Anecdote in history: the case of Voltaire’s Histoire de Charles XIIEdward Nye, Contemporary reactions to Jean-Georges Noverre’s ballets d’actionMelissa Percival, Fragonard and pastiche: the case of the Girl in Spanish costume at DulwichCaroline Warman, Chains of influence, chains of allusion: case studies of clandestine rhetoric in and around the EncyclopédiePhoebe von Held, ‘Le grand oubli de Suzanne Simonin’: a premature case of amnesia in Diderot’s La ReligieuseAnn Lewis, Illustrations as reactions: three nineteenth-century readings of La Nouvelle HéloïseKatherine Astbury, Reacting to the Revolution: the example of Marmontel and MercierMark Darlow, The role of the listener in the musical aesthetics of the RevolutionII. Women’s studiesJan Clarke, Violence against actresses: evidence from Campardon and othersNadine Bérenguier, Lambert, Puisieux, Leprince de Beaumont, Epinay and the legacy of their educational manuals in the nineteenth centuryMary Trouille, Challenging male violence and the double standard in the courts: the separation case of Dame D (Paris, 1788) III. MontesquieuPierre Briant, Montesquieu et ses sources: Alexandre, l’empire perse, les Guèbres et l’irrigation (De l’esprit des loisX.13-14; XVIII.7)IV. Language and cultureAvi S. Lifschitz, From the corruption of French to the cultural distinctiveness of German: the controversy over Prémontval’s Préservatif (1759) Jonathan Mallinson, Reconquering Peru: eighteenth-century translations of Graffigny’s Lettres d’une PeruvienneSummaries
