Shifting the Boundaries. Transformation of the Languages of Public and Private in the Eighteenth Century

Abstract

Contents Preface, Dario Castiglione preface, Lesley Sharpe this, that and the other - public, social and private in the 17th and 18th centuries, John Brewer regendering the republic of letters - private association in the public sphere, 1780-89, Dena Goodman addressing the public in 18th-century French fiction, Malcolm Cook scandalous femininity - prostitution and 18th-century narrative, Vivien Jones the fear of public disorder - marriage between revolution and reaction, Ursula Vogel Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel - argumentative strategies in the debate on the rights of women, Lesley Sharpe literatures of publicity and the right to freedom of the press in late-18th-century Germany - the case of Karl Friedrich Bahrdt, John Christian Laursen censorship and the conception of the public in late-18th-century Germany - or, are censorship and public opinion mutually exclusive?, Edoardo Tortarolo opinion's metamorphosis - Hume and the perception of public authority, Dario Castiglione an impartial actor - the private and the public sphere in Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments, Maria Luisa Pesante William Godwin and the idea of historical commemoration - history as public memory and private sentiment, Mark Salber Phillips a historical postscript, Jonathan Barry