Enlightenment and tradition; Women's studies; Montesquieu

“…The Discursive culture: reaction and interaction, text and context<br/> Mark Darlow <em>and</em> Caroline Warman (eds), Introduction<br/> Russell Goulbourne, Chain reactions in the eighteenth century: reading Racine, Marot and Horace<br/> Wendy Trowbridge, Anecdote in history: the case of Voltaire’s <em>Histoire de Charles XII</em><br/> Edward Nye, Contemporary reactions to Jean-Georges Noverre’s <em>ballets d’action</em><br/> Melissa Percival, Fragonard and pastiche: the case of the <em>Girl in Spanish costume</em> at Dulwich<br/> Caroline Warman, Chains of influence, chains of allusion: case studies of clandestine rhetoric in and around the <em>Encyclopédie</em><br/> Phoebe von Held, ‘Le grand oubli de Suzanne Simonin’: a premature case of amnesia in Diderot’s <em>La Religieuse</em><br/> Ann Lewis, Illustrations as reactions: three nineteenth-century readings of <em>La Nouvelle Héloïse</em><br/> Katherine Astbury, Reacting to the Revolution: the example of Marmontel and Mercier<br/> Mark Darlow, The role of the listener in the musical aesthetics of the Revolution<br/> II. …”