Index

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 twentieth-century 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. Aarsleff, Hans, 78 Abjection, 64, 70 Abrams, M.H., 170, 179 Absentee landlordism, 27 Academies: Académie Française, 223 and eulogies, 218 Accomplished lady's delight in cookery, The, 49 Actors, 185-186, 190-191, 196 Addison, Joseph, 174, 180, 275 Cato: A Tragedy, 174, 180 Adventures of a Rupee, 90 African Institution, 30 Alcibiades, 216, 218 Amour-propre, 191, 201, 205, 207 Anderson, Alexander, 66, 68 Andreadis, Harriette, 137 Annual Register, The, 99-101, 119-121, 123, 126-127 Anquetil-Duperron, AbrahamHyacinthe , 294 Anson, George, 55, 57, 65 Anti-Semitism, 287, 289, 292, 295, 303 Aposiopesis, 165-166, 168, 171— 178, 180 Arendt, Hannah, 301 Aristocracy and anti-intellectualism, 223 and idleness, 223 See also society, polite or worldly. Aristotle, 215 in medieval fabiau, 216 Aristu, José Luis Gil, 157 Aryans, 286-288, 291, 299, 303 Ashton, Thomas, 58, 73 Assistant, 64 Athens, 191, 198-199 Ayers, Michael, 79, 82 B Bacon, Francis, Sir, 282, 296, 301 Bailly, Jean-Sylvain, 279-280, 282-288, 291-292, 296, 298300 Baker, Keith, 296 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 49 Balayé, Simone, 8-9 Balcarras, Lord, 34 Balzac, Honoré de, 248 Banks, Joseph, 57-59, 65-66, 68, 70-73, 75 Barash, Carol, 137 Baroque, 129, 131-133, 135, 137, 139, 141, 143-144, 147 303 304 / Index Barthes, Roland, 296 Battle of the Books, The, 86 Baudelaire, Charles, 234-235, 245, 248-250 Bayle, Pierre, 284 Beckford, William Descriptive Account of the Isle of Jamaica, A, 49 Beebee, Thomas, 29 Behn,Aphra, 130-131,135,137, 141-143, 145, 148, 150 Belisarda, Marcia, 131 Bennett, Judith, 156 Bergerac, Savien de Cyrano de, 216 Le Pédant joué, 216 Bergmann, Emilie, 156 Berkebile, Donald, 273 Berlant, Lauren, 255, 272 Biography and private lives of "great men", 217-218 collective, 218 of philosophers, 213, 216, 222 Blair, Hugh, 169-171, 179 Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, 170, 179 Blake, William, 300 America a Prophecy, 42 Daughters of Albion, 42 Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna, 279280 , 286-290, 292, 299-300, 303 Bligh, William, 64-66 Blum, Carol, 3 Body, 78-79, 81-85, 87-88 Bonaparte, Napoleon, 244 Bonnet, Marie-Jo, 156 Bonneville, Nicolas de, 296 Booth, Michael R., 180 Boswell, James, 70, 75 Bougainville, Louis-Antoine de, 63, 74 Boulanger, Nicolas, 283 Bounty, 64, 69 Boyce, Elizabeth, 157 Braden, Gordon, 157 Bread, 53, 55, 57-63, 65-66, 6871 Breadfruit, 53, 55-71 Brembate, lsotta, 155 Brett, Philip, 160 British housewife, The, 49 Brongersma, Titia, 155 Brooten, Bernadette, 156 Budgell, Eustace, 84 Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc de, 286 Burney, James, 71 Buzard, James, 260, 275 Cabet, Etienne, 301 Cahiers staëliens, 8 Calendrier électronique des spectacles sous l'ancien régime et sous la révolution CESAR, 214-215 Calvi, Giulia, 157 Cane-piece cat, 31-33 Cannibalism, 70 Casanova, Giacomo, 266, 277 Cassirer, Ernst, 78 Castillo, David, 156 Castle, Terry, 159 Celibacy, 215, 223 See also scholar, and virility; sex and procreation. Cerceau, Jean-Antoine du, 216 Le Philosophe à la mode, 216 Chandler, James, 275, 277 Charlatanism, 215 Charles I, 137 Charrière, Isabelle de, 16 Chrysal, 87-90 Chudleigh, Mary, 131 Index / 305 Classical allusions, 130 Coconut, 60 Colombardo, Gernando, 155 Comédie Française, 223 Comedy, 183, 188-190 Commerce, 184-185, 188, 193, 197, 199-201, 205, 207 Commercial society, 183-185, 187-188, 191, 196, 199 Commerson, 63 Condorcet, Marie Jean, marquis de, 296 Confessions, 191, 206 Consciousness, 77-88, 91 Convention, 238, 240-242, 244 Cook, James, 57-58, 60, 65, 7273 , 75 Coppet, 7,9 Corn Laws, 58 Cornwall, 27, 33-34, 37-38, 46 Counter-Enlightenment, 215 Court de Gébelin, Antoine, 284, 296-297 Cowper, William, 30,42 Crary, Jonathan, 277 Creole, 66, 68, 70 D Daffy Duck, 177 Daily Advertiser, The, 97,99-101, 103, 105-109, 114, 116-119, 121, 124-126 D'Alembert, Jean Le...