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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

  • Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, 57

  • Adams, John, 92, 98, 101

  • Alembert, Jean le Rond d', 6, 17

  • Almanac, American, 91, 93, 94, 97–98

  • American Revolution, 55, 89–94, 97–99

  • apples, 106

  • art, 261–263, 280, 284

  • art criticism, 58, 61, 68–69

  • ASECS, 3–4, 6–7, 14–17, 21–22

  • Ashworth, William, 141, 156

  • Astell, Mary, 251–255

B

  • Baldwin, Thomas, 119, 127, 131–132, 137

  • ballooning, 118, 135

  • Berlinische Monatsschrift, 91

  • biology, 180, 182

  • Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc de, 187–193, 195–205

C

  • Cadière, Mary-Catherine, 257–259, 284–285

  • canal, 37, 38–39, 46

  • Caritat, Nicolas de, 7

  • Carolina Gold Rice, 106, 109–110, 112, 114–115

  • Carver, Jonathan, 41, 47

  • Catholic, 258–259, 262, 265–266, 285

  • celebrity, 258–259, 270–271, 284

  • Chodowiecki, Daniel Nikolaus, 93, 100

  • Clarens, 210–221, 223, 226 [End Page 295]

  • Clarissa, 248–249, 250

  • climate, 120

  • Condorcet, Marquis de, 7

  • contemplation, 252

  • convulsionaries, 227–242

  • counter-enlightenment, 239

  • crucifixion, 230, 232, 235–237

  • cult, 257–259, 285

D

  • de Sales, Francis, 265–268

  • devotion, 247–248, 251–254, 258–259, 261–263, 265–271, 276–279, 280–281, 283

  • Diderot, Denis, 61, 71, 227, 229–230, 232–233, 235–242

    • Cinqmars et Derville, 236, 242

    • Le Neveu de Rameau, 236, 242

    • Pensées philosophiques, 230, 236, 240–241

    • La Religieuse, 237, 242

  • Dodwell, Henry, 266, 268

  • Dudoyer, Gérard, 229

E

  • economics, 164–165, 169, 180, 182–183

  • embodiment, 136 Encyclopédie, 192, 194, 200, 202, 227, 230, 234–235, 237, 241–242

  • enlightenment, 187, 189, 191, 200–205, 229, 239–240, 242, 247–249, 251, 271, 277, 279–280

  • excise, 139–143, 146, 150, 154–159

  • Ezell, Margaret J. M., 86

F

  • Fanaticism, 229

  • fandom, 248, 269, 284

  • Fergusson, Elizabeth Graeme, 54

  • Fergusson, Elizabeth Graeme (Writings of), 75–76, 86

  • FitzRoy, Augustus, third Duke of Grafton, 24

  • Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier de, 6

  • Forster, Georg, 90, 91, 99

  • Forster, Johann Reinhold, 97

  • four stages, 170

  • François de Sales, 285

  • Franklin, Benjamin, 23, 27–28, 38, 42, 43–46 51, 55–56, 89, 91–92, 94, 99–101

  • Franklin, James, 53

  • Friedrich Melchior Grimm, 229, 241

  • friendship, 210–225

G

  • gaugers, 140, 142–144, 146, 150–156

  • general will, 210, 212–224

  • genre, 164, 166, 172, 179

  • Germany, 55

  • Girod-Chantrans, Justin, 9

  • glassmaking, 147

  • Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 83

  • Gothic, 258, 260, 261, 263

  • grands secours, 228–231, 233–237, 239–240, 242

  • Grimm, Friedrich Melchior, 229

    • Correspondance littéraire, philosophique, et critique, 229

H

  • Hales, Stephen, 190, 201

  • heat, 189–199, 202, 204

  • Hilliard d'Auberteuil, Michel René, 91, 99, 101

  • Hill, Wills, Lord Hillsborough, 42

  • historiography, 164–166, 172, 174, 176–177, 179–180, 182

  • history, 163–167, 169, 170–172, 175–176, 178–181, 183–186

  • hospital, 38, 42, 45–46 [End Page 296]

  • human nature, 165–167, 169–170, 177, 184–185

  • Hume, David, 163, 166, 183–185

  • humility, 119, 128, 136

I

  • idolatry, 261–263, 284

  • image, 259, 261–263, 284

  • impromptu, 58, 66, 68, 72

J

  • Jansenism, 227–228, 239, 240

  • Jean-Bernard Le Blanc, 58

  • Julie, or the New Heloise, 222–226

  • Junius, 26–27, 31, 33, 44–45

K

  • Kant, Immanuel, 91

L

  • la Condamine, Charles-Marie de, 229

  • landrace grains, 106, 115

  • language, 187–190, 193, 194–195, 197–199, 201

  • learned societies, 3–4, 6, 7, 11, 13–14, 19–20, 22

  • legislator, 212, 215–217, 220, 222, 226

  • Lemoyne, Jean-Baptiste, 58

  • Lunardi, Vincenzo, 119, 137

M

  • manufacture, 140–147, 149–151, 154, 155, 157–159

  • manuscript, 52–56

    • circulation, 52–54

    • public, 54, 56

    • spectatorship, 68

    • letters, 53, 55

  • manuscript book, 75–77, 79, 83–85

  • manuscript publication, 80

  • manuscript verse, 57–58, 61, 63, 65–66, 68–70

  • Masham, Damaris, 251–254, 255

  • matinée, 210–212, 214, 216...

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