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Includes articles on architecture, cultural history, the ‘Luxury debate’ in the eighteenth century, Rousseau, and the manuscript of The Life of John Wilkes with commentary and contextualisation.
Architecture, Cultural History, Autobiography
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Architecture, Cultural History, Autobiography
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Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Cover | 1 | |
| Half Title | 2 | |
| Title Page | 4 | |
| Copyright Page | 5 | |
| Conents | 6 | |
| List of figures | 8 | |
| List of abbreviations | 10 | |
| I. Architecture | 12 | |
| Les académies et la question des techniques en architecture (de la fin du XVIIe siècle à 1750) | 14 | |
| Wren, architectural research and the history of trades in the early Royal Society | 20 | |
| La Maison de Glace, ou I'architecture comme science expérimentale | 40 | |
| The Royal Academy of Mathematics in Barcelona and the trade-guild tradition crisis (1720-1793) | 56 | |
| L'enseignement des mathématiques dans la première moitié du XVIIIe siècle au sein de l'Académire royale d'architecture | 68 | |
| The Académie royale des sciences and the gardens of Versailles | 80 | |
| II. Cultural history | 108 | |
| Sociabilité and the écoles de dessin | 110 | |
| Détournements d'auteur: les surprises de l'épistolarité dans la Lettre sur le commerce de la librairie de Denis Diderot | 138 | |
| The art of trade and the economics of taste: the English print market in Paris, 1770-1800 | 178 | |
| 1711: the advent of Homer in French prose - an anatomy of Mme Dacier's ground-breaking translation | 204 | |
| III. Luxury in the eighteenth century: selected papers from the Voltaire Foundation Postgraduate Conference, 2007 | 226 | |
| Materialism and morality: Diderot and Sade in light of the luxury debate | 228 | |
| Luxe d'ostentation et luxe de mollesse: la critique rousseauiste des carrosses | 238 | |
| Stroming the castle of indolence: rescuing virtue from luxury in the works of James Thomson and Thomas Blackwell | 254 | |
| The death of Puritanism? Protestant Dissent and the problem of luxury in eighteenth-century England | 262 | |
| IV. Autobiography | 272 | |
| The life of John Wilkes | 274 | |
| V. Rousseau | 322 | |
| An unknown Rousseau autograph: the Neuchâtel manuscript of NOTES, en Musique | 324 | |
| Summaries | 338 |