Voltaire, Religion and ideology, Women's studies, History of the book, Passion in the eighteenth century

Contents

Voltaire after Besterman / W.H. Barber -- Jansenist themes and influences in Prévost's Cleveland / Guillaume Ansart -- Virtue and defilement : moral rationalism and sexual prohibitions in the Lettres persanes / Oscar Kenshur -- The 'article Genève' quarrel and the reticence of French Enlightenment discourse on women in the public realm / Madelyn Gutwirth -- Mme de Sévigné and the Jesuits in the siècle des Lumières / Catherine R. Montfort -- From précieuse to mother figure : sentiment, authority and the eighteenth-century salonnière / Elena Russo -- Dossier Claude Crébillon - Henriette Marie Stafford / Philip Stewart et Miriam Ebel-Davenport -- Conflicting views of marriage and spousal abuse in pre-Revolutionary France : the separation case of Jeanne Fouragnan / Mary Trouille -- Theatre beyond privilege : changes in French play publication, 1700-1789 / Jeffrey S. Ravel -- Passion : proceedings of the Voltaire Foundation postgraduate meeting, March 1999 / Edward Nye

General notes

Includes bibliographic references Text in English and French with Italian quotations