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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.

Symbols

  • 120 Days of Sodom, 21, 28, 30

A

  • Accademia dei pugni, 96–97, 99–100, 102

  • Amalia, 75, 77–78

  • Anthropocene, 123, 125, 138, 145

  • Ars combinatoria, 25, 28, 31

  • Asiatic Company of Trieste, 108, 111

B

  • Balance, 231, 246, 253

  • Beccaria, Cesare, 66, 95–98, 102, 104–106

  • Beggar’s Opera, 147, 151, 153, 157–162

  • Bible, 178–179, 182

  • Bolts, Wilhelm, 109–111, 117–118

  • Botany, 66, 107–108, 110, 112–115, 117, 119

  • Brockhaus, Friedrich Arnold, 208

C

  • Carolina, 74–78

  • Carpanetto, Dino, 66–67

  • Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1–3, 21–33, 49–61

  • Chambers, Ephraim, 206, 213, 215–218, 224, 226

  • Cyclopaedia, 206, 210–219, 224, 226

  • Character, 49–60

  • Charlestown, SC, 119

  • Cheyne, George, 15, 18

    • English Malady, or, a Treatise of Nervous Diseases of All Kinds, The, 15, 18

  • Colonialism, 160

  • Comédie-Italienne (Paris), 84–90, 92

  • Compassion, 164–168, 170, 173, 175, 177–178

  • Cook, James, Captain, 108–111, 119

  • Crime, 147

D

  • D’Alembert, Jean Le Rond, 206–215, 219–225

  • David, Jacques-Louis, 231–241, 244, 246–262

  • da Vinci, Leonardo, 234, 236, 256

    • Treatise on Painting, 237

  • De Gua de Malves, Jean-Paul, 206, 222

  • Diderot, Denis, 205–227

  • Dillon, John Talbot, 41–43, 47

  • Dobbs, Arthur, 130–132, 139–144

  • Don Quixote, 1–3

E

  • Emotions, 163, 172, 176–177, 180

  • Empire, 65, 67, 147–148, 152, 155–161 [End Page 269]

  • Encyclopaedia Britannica, 208, 212, 216, 218–219, 222, 224–226

  • Encyclopédie, 205–226

  • Energy, 124, 134, 136–138

  • Enlightenment, 65–66, 185, 199–200, 202

  • Exploration, 123–126, 130–133, 138

F

  • Ferdinand, Duke of Parma, 74

  • Fielding, Henry, 5, 9–12, 16–18

    • Joseph Andrews, 5, 9–12, 14, 16–18

  • Filipino literature, 50, 55, 57, 60

  • Fisheries, 126–128, 136, 140

  • Franklin, Benjamin, 112–113

  • Furetière, Antoine, 206, 211, 213, 218, 221, 223–224, 226

    • Dictionnaire universel, 206, 210–211, 213, 218, 221, 223–226

G

  • Gardens, 107, 109, 112–113, 115, 117

  • Gay, John, 147–162

  • Geography, 35, 38, 43, 45, 48

  • Globalization, 51

  • Gluck, Christoph Willibald, 81, 84, 88–89, 93

  • Gratitude, 163–171, 174–175, 177, 179, 181–182

  • Grétry, André, 81, 84–85, 91–92

  • Ground, 232–233, 241, 244, 247–251, 254, 257

H

  • Habsburg Expedition of 1783, 66

  • Habsburgs, 65

  • History painting, 259, 261

  • Holland, Lady Elizabeth, 42–43, 47

  • Hume, David, 6, 8–9, 13, 16–18

    • “Of National Character,” in Three Essays, Moral and Political, 16

I

  • Ibarra, 55–58

  • Ibarra, Joaquin, 35–38, 44, 46–47

  • Imitation, 1

  • Improvement societies, 127–128, 130, 133, 136

  • Industrial enlightenment, 127, 137

  • Intervention of the Sabine Women, 237, 253, 255–257, 260

J

  • Jaucourt, Louis de, 212

  • Jesuits, 71, 74

  • Joseph II, 103–104, 108–116

  • Judicial torture, 66, 95, 97–100, 102–106

K

  • Kaunitz, Wenzel Anton, 99–106

L

  • Launcelot Greaves, 53–54, 61

  • Leclerc, Jean-Louis, Comte de Buffon, 112

  • Legal reform, 185

  • Lennox, Charlotte

    • Female Quixote, The, 11, 18, 54, 56, 61

  • Leonidas at Thermopylae, 238, 261

  • Leopold, Peter, 70–71, 73

  • Lombardy, 71, 73, 77

  • Lully, Jean-Baptiste, 81–84, 88, 92

M

  • Mandeville, Bernard, 147–151, 156–161

    • Fable of the Bees, The, 148–149, 151, 160–161

  • Maps, 36–39, 44–45

  • Maria Theresa, 65–66, 69–79 [End Page 270]

  • Marie Antoinette, 66, 81–84, 88–94

  • Märter, Franz Joseph, 110, 112–119

  • Masculinity, 5, 10–16

  • Metafiction, 27

  • Mining, 129, 131–136, 143

  • Mirror-reversal, 239, 241, 247, 258

  • Moline, Pierre-Louis, 89

  • Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de, 185–193, 201, 203

  • Mora, Gian Giacomo, 96, 98–99, 101–103, 105

  • Much-esteemed history of the ever-famous knight Don Quixote de la Mancha Containing His Many Wonderful and Adventures and Achievements, The, 7

N

  • Naigeon, Jacques André, 185, 189, 194, 202–203

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