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

• Academic culture, 1

• Allusion, 185–186

• Anon

  • Lady’s Drawing Room, The, 158, 163, 166, 169–170, 173

• Auctions, 139

B

• Banks, Sir Joseph, 134, 136, 138–139, 154

• Banyan, 158, 163, 165–166

• Baquíjano y Carrillo, José, 2, 9, 14–17

• Basset-Table, The (1705), 88, 90–91

• Bayle, Pierre, 179, 192, 194, 196

• Beaumarchais, Pierre-Augustin Caron de, 43, 48–49, 57–58

• Bentinck, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Portland, 132, 134

• Bold Stroke for a Wife, A (1718), 84, 87, 96, 105

• British, 20, 24, 30–31, 33

• British and French theater, 62, 65–66

• British-India, 163, 166

• Burke, Edmund, 63, 69–70, 74, 78

C

• Camera obscura, 199–200, 210

• Censorship, 71, 76–77, 79

• Centlivre, Susanna, 83–106

• Certamen poético, 1, 2, 5–7, 14–15

• China, 158–160, 171–172

• Civilizing Process, The, 193

• Colonialism, 163, 168, 170

• Comic plots, 95–96

• Correspondance complète de Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 212

• Cruz, Ramón de la, 215, 217, 227, 229, 231, 235, 237

• Cultivation, 240, 242–243, 246, 250, 252, 255, 263–264

• Cultural History of, 194

D

• De Brosses, Charles, 107–128

  • Du culte des dieux fétiches, 107–112, 125

  • Histoire des navigations aux terres australes, 109, 112, 126

  • Traité de la formation méchanique des langues, 109, 117, 126

• Defoe, Daniel

  • Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, The, 158

• Dependence, 242, 247–248, 250, 255–256, 260, 265

E

• East India Company, 157, 162–164, 166, 170, 173

• Economics, 84, 86, 88, 90, 93, 100, 241, 245–250, 264

• Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 157

• El diablo cojuelo, 41, 43, 51, 56–57, 60

• El engaño feliz, 37–40, 43–44, 46–47, 49, 51–54, 56

• Emotion, 86, 96, 100

• Epic, 19–22, 28, 31, 33

• Epideictic oratory, 2

• Eurocentrism, 160, 171, 173

F

• Fashion, 216–217, 220–222, 224–225, 227, 230, 232, 237

• Festival of Federation (Fête de la Fédération), 62–69, 73, 75, 76, 77, 79

• Fetish, 191

• Fetish / fetishism, 107–111, 113–114, 117–119, 122, 124–126

• Figurism, 108–110, 113, 115, 119–124

• French Revolution, 61–63, 66, 75–81

G

• Gamester, The (1705), 88, 99, 102

• Gender, 216–219, 229–232, 237–238

• Gender and translation, 46, 52–54

• Genre, 245–246, 249–250, 264

• Georgic, 242, 250, 252, 262, 266

• Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 205–206, 211, 213

• Graffigny, Françoise de, 200, 211

H

• Hair, 184, 186, 188–190

• Handkerchiefs, 185, 193

• Harlequinades, 62, 66, 76–77, 81

• Highlander, 19, 26, 30–31

• History / historiography, 107–129

• Honor code, 43–46

• Hume, David, 117–129

• Humors comedy, 95, 98, 105

• Husbandry, 239, 243, 245, 255–257

I

• Identity, 216–218, 222–228, 232, 235–236

• Improvement, 239, 243, 245–246, 248, 250, 252, 261–262, 264

• “Improvement tract”, 245–250

• Improvement tract, 242

• Indian, 26, 29, 30, 34

• Intermediaries, 162, 167, 168, 169, 170

• Inversion, 230, 231, 232, 233, 237

J

• Jefferson, Thomas, 19–21, 24–35

• Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse, 207–209, 213–214

L

• Labor, 255, 257

• Le diable boiteux, 39–45, 48, 54, 57, 60

• Lesage, Alain-René, 39–45, 48–60

• Logan, 26, 28–30, 34

M

• Madramany y Calatayud, Mariano, 37–60

• Magic lantern, 198–206, 211, 213

• Materialism / materiality, 108, 109

• Maton, William George, 134, 136, 138, 142–144, 151, 153–155

• Mechanism, 117

• Mediation, 108–109, 120

• Mercantile capital, 158, 160–161, 172

• Merry, Robert, 67, 69, 76, 78, 80

• Meteors, 175, 182–183, 195

• Mirror, 215–237

• Modernity, 217–219, 225–226, 230–232

• Moratín, Nicolás Fernández de, 215, 217, 219, 233, 237

• Mughal Empire, 157, 163

• Myth / mythology, 108–112, 114, 116, 118–120, 122–123, 125, 130

N

• Natural History, 111, 117, 119, 128–129, 132–133, 135, 137...