Representing private lives of the Enlightenment / edited by Andrew Kahn.

Oxford : Voltaire Foundation, 2010.

x, 335 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Introduction : the problem of private life / Andrew Kahn -- Historians and eighteenth-century private life : an overview / Sarah Maza -- Intimate, deprived, uncivilised : Diderot and the publication of the private moment / Caroline Warman -- Inventing private lives : the representation of private lives in French vies privées / Olivier Ferret -- The private life of criminals / Lise Andries -- La nouvelle Héloïse and Wolmar's project : transforming passion into "familiarité fraternelle" / Alison Oliver -- Private life, personal liberty and sexual crime in eighteenth-century Venice: the case of Gaetano Franceschini / Larry Wolff -- Handling sin in eighteenth-century Russia / Viktor Zhivov -- Writing, ranks and the eighteenth-century Russian gentry experience / Irina Reyfman -- Private walks and public gazes : Enlightenment and the use of gardens in eighteenth-century Russia / Andreas Schönle -- Embracing and escaping the material : genre painting, objects and private life in eighteenth-century France / Mark Ledbury -- Eccentricity and the self : private characters in English public portraiture / Shearer West -- Friendship and materialism in the French Enlightenment / Adam Sutcliffe -- Captivating Enlightenment : eighteenth-century children's books and the private life of the child / M.O. Grenby -- Schiller, gonorrhoea and original sin in the emotional life of a Russian nobleman / Andrei Zorin.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-330) and index.