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  • Index

Every effort has been made to include references to all identifiable persons living before or during the long eighteenth century, as well as to often cited contemporary critics and commentators, and to provide a selective listing of relevant concepts and keywords. Readers may also wish to consult the endnotes of each essay for more comprehensive information.

A

  • Academy of Dijon, 94

  • Adaptation, 219, 233–234, 237

  • Addison, Joseph The Spectator, 69, 83, 86

  • Aesthetics, 78, 82–83, 85

  • Aether, 112, 116, 120–124, 128–129, 133

  • Affair of the Fourteen, 91–99, 101, 102, 104–106

  • Agency, 114, 120, 125–129

  • Aikin, Lucy Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth, 138, 146, 151

  • Analogy, 113, 119–120, 132, 134

  • Antiquarianism, 172–174, 189, 191

  • Austen, Jane, 221–223, 232–236

B

  • Becoming Jane, 219–234, 235

  • Behn, Aphra, 3, 5–6, 10–18, 21–22

  • Benger, Elizabeth Memoirs of the late Mrs. Hamilton, 138, 146

  • Berkeley, George, 111–135

  • Betterton, Thomas, 2–5, 10

  • Biblical poetry, 42–43

  • Biological family, 54–55, 60

  • Body, 113–134

  • Burke, Edmund An Enquiry into the Origins of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful, 83, 85–87

C

  • Chambers, Ephraim Cyclopaedia, or, An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, 139, 150

  • Chansonnier de la République, pour l’an 3è, 99, 109

  • Chansonniers, 90, 99, 101, 103, 108

  • Charles II, King of England, 3–4, 6–7, 25

  • Commedia dell’arte, 6, 11, 13, 15, 17, 23

  • Complexity in Female characters, 204, 206–209, 214

  • Confessions, 94, 108

  • Conjugal family, 55, 60

  • Consolations des misères de ma vie, 99

  • “Couplets à J.J. Rousseau”, 99, 100

  • Crusoe, 219–220, 224, 227–231, 233, 236–237

  • Cuvier, Georges, 173, 174, 190

D

  • Darnton, Robert, 91, 93–94, 96–97, 104–105, 107–108 [End Page 247]

  • Defoe, Daniel, 51–53, 55, 57–58, 60–62, 65–68, 167, 220, 227–230, 231, 233, 236–237

    • Conjugal Lewdness; or Matrimonial Whoredom, 58, 67

    • Family Instructor, The, 52–53, 55, 57, 66–67, 68

    • Religious Courtship, 52–53, 55, 57, 66

    • Robinson Crusoe, 220, 228, 230, 233, 236–237

  • Dennis, John, 27–44

    • Advancement and Reformation of Modern Poetry, The, 27–30, 32–33, 37, 43

    • Grounds of Criticism in Poetry, The, 27, 31, 33, 36–37, 39, 41

  • Diderot, Denis, 93–94, 107

  • Discours sur les sciences et les arts, 94–95

  • Discours sur l’origine de l’inégalité, 94

  • D’Israeli, Isaac

    • Commentaries on the Life and Reign of Charles the First, 138, 145

    • Enquiry into the Literary and Political Character of James the First, 138, 145, 149

  • Dryden, John, 2–8, 10–2, 15–16, 18, 22–26

  • Du Contrat Social, 102

E

  • Elliot, Ann, actress, 198, 209–210, 212–214

  • Encyclopédie, 93–94

  • Enthusiasm, 115, 132, 135

  • Entrepreneur/ship/ial, 51, 61, 63

  • Essai sur l’origine des langues où il est parlé de la mélodie et de l’imitation musicale, 90

F

  • Faith, 112–119 129

  • Families, 51–56, 59, 66

  • Family models, 51, 53–54

  • Family Romance of the French Revolution, The, 154, 166

  • Farce, 2–4, 6, 13, 21–22, 25

  • Fashions for Women, 199

  • Female characters, 197–214

  • Fête champêtre célébrée à Montmorency en l’honneur de J.J. Rousseau, 102, 104, 109

  • Fête révolutionnaire, 91

  • Fielding, Sarah

    • David Simple and Volume the Last, 140, 142, 149

    • Governess, The, 140, 142, 150

    • Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia, 142, 145, 150, 151

  • Film, 219–226, 231, 233, 235–236

  • French Revolution, 90–92, 97, 99, 101–102, 105–107, 109–110

  • Freud, Sigmund, 154

G

  • Gambling, 198, 200, 213

  • Geology, history of, 172, 175–176, 186, 192

  • Gossip, 200, 213

  • Graffigny, Françoise de, 159

  • Green, Sarah Private History of the Court of England, The, 138

  • Gulliver, 224–226, 231

H

  • Hamilton, Elizabeth Memoirs of the Life of Agrippina, 138, 145–146, 151 [End Page 248]

  • Haywood, Eliza Fantomina, 69–87

  • Heroic tragedy, 204

  • History, 220–230, 232, 235

  • Hume, David, 86

  • Hunt, Lynn, 106, 110, 154, 164, 166, 168

  • Hybrid, 169–175, 178–179, 185–187

I

  • “Ici de la simple nature”, 103–104

  • Ideology, 69, 84...

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