Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture

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I. Problems of Narrative Technique in the French Novel

A Matter of Competence: The Relationship between Reading and Novel-making in Eighteenth-Century France

Ronald C. Rosbottom

pp. 245-263

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sec.1977.0014

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Social Realism in the Dialogue of Eighteenth-Century French Fiction

Vivienne Mylne

pp. 265-284

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sec.1977.0015

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From Marmontel to Berquin: The Dynamic Concept of Morality in Eighteenth-Century French Fiction

Angus Martin

pp. 285-302

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sec.1977.0016

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The First-Person Narrator in the Abbé Prévost's Mémoires d'un homme de qualité

R. A. Francis

pp. 303-316

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sec.1977.0017

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II. Woman Perceived and Perceiver: Self, Role and Identity

"Spectatress of the Mischief Which She Made": Tragic Woman Perceived and Perceiver

Cynthia S. Matlack

pp. 317-330

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sec.1977.0018

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A Penchant for Perdita on the Eighteenth-Century English Stage

Irene G. Dash

pp. 331-346

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sec.1977.0019

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The Status of Women in Several of Lessing s Dramas

Christine O. Sjogren

pp. 347-359

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sec.1977.0020

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The Matron of Ephesus in Eighteenth-Century France: The Lady and the Legend

Rose Ann Runte

pp. 361-375

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sec.1977.0021

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Madame de Graffigny and Her Salon

English Showalter Jr.

pp. 377-391

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sec.1977.0022

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Attitudes toward Women in Two Eighteenth-Century French Periodicals

Kay Wilkins

pp. 393-406

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sec.1977.0023

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III. Utopia: Dream and Reality

Toward a Definition of Utopia

Oscar A. Haac

pp. 407-416

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sec.1977.0024

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L'Utopie: Tentative de réintégration universelle

E. Roger Clark

pp. 417-426

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sec.1977.0025

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Utopian Dream as Psychic Reality

Isabel F. Knight

pp. 427-438

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sec.1977.0026

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L'Abbé Prévost et l'Utopie

Jean Garagnon

pp. 439-457

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sec.1977.0027

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Dreams of Reality: Enlightened Hopes for an Unattainable Spain

Iris M. Zavala

pp. 459-470

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sec.1977.0028

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