Representing private lives of the Enlightenment

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Representing private lives of the Enlightenment

Edited by

ANDREW KAHN

Contributors

Lise Andries, CNRS – Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne

Olivier Ferret, Université Lyon 2

Matthew Grenby, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Andrew Kahn, St Edmund Hall, Oxford

Mark Ledbury, University of Sydney

Sarah Maza, Northwestern University

Alison Oliver, Voltaire Foundation, Oxford

Irina Reyfman, Columbia University

Andreas Schönle, Queen Mary, University of London

Adam Sutcliffe, King’s College London

Caroline Warman, Jesus College, Oxford

Shearer West, AHRC

Larry Wolff, New York University

Viktor Zhivov, U. C. Berkeley

Andrei Zorin, Taylor Institution, Oxford

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Representing private lives of the Enlightenment

Edited by

ANDREW KAHN

What constituted the ‘private’ in the eighteenth century? In Representing private lives of the Enlightenment

authors look beyond a simple equation of the private and the domestic to explore the significance of

the individual and its constructions of identity and environment.

Taking case studies from Russia, France, Italy and England, specialists from a range of disciplines

analyse descriptions of the private situated largely outside the familial context: the nobleman at the

theatre or in his study, the woman in her boudoir, portraitists and their subject, the solitary

wanderer in the public garden, the penitent at confession. This critical approach provides a

comparative framework that simultaneously confirms the Enlightenment as a pan-European

movement, both intellectually and socially, whilst uncovering striking counterpoints. What emerges

is a unique sense of how individuals from different classes and cultures sought to map their social

and domestic sphere, and an understanding of the permeable boundaries separating private and

public.

Andrew Kahn, Introduction: The problem of private life

Sarah Maza, Historians and eighteenth-century private life: an overview

Caroline Warman, Intimate, deprived, uncivilised: Diderot and the publication of the

private moment

Olivier Ferret, Inventing private lives: the representation of private lives in French Vies

privées

Lise Andries, The private life of criminals

Alison Oliver, La Nouvelle Héloïse and Wolmar’s project: transforming passion into

‘familiarité fraternelle’

Larry Wolff, Private life, personal liberty and sexual crime in eighteenth-century Venice:

the case of Gaetano Franceschini

Viktor Zhivov, Handling sin in eighteenth-century Russia

Irina Reyfman, Writing, ranks and the eighteenth-century Russian gentry experience

Andreas Schönle, Private walks and public gazes: Enlightenment and the use of gardens in

eighteenth-century Russia

Mark Ledbury, Embracing and escaping the material: genre painting, objects and private

life in eighteenth-century France

Shearer West, Eccentricity and the self: private character in English public portraiture

Adam Sutcliffe, Friendship and materialism in the French Enlightenment

M. O. Grenby, Captivating Enlightenment: eighteenth-century children’s books and the

private life of the child

Andrei Zorin, Schiller, gonorrhoea and original sin in the emotional life of a Russian

nobleman

Summaries

Bibliography

Index

Andrew Kahn is Fellow and Tutor in Russian at St Edmund Hall, Oxford and Reader in Russian

at the University of Oxford. He works on the literature and history of ideas of the European and

Russian Enlightenments.

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