SENSIBILITY, READING AND ILUSTRATION
SPECTACLES AND SiGNS IN GrAFFIGNY, MaRIVAUX AND RoUSSEAU
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Sensibility, Reading and Illustration
Spectacles and Signs in Graffigny, Marivaux and Rousseau
Ann Lewis
First published 2009
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Contents
Guide
In writing this book I have incurred many debts. First, I would like to thank Michael Moriarty, who supervised the thesis on which this study is based, for his guidance and invaluable advice since I started work on the project. I am also grateful to Marian Hobson for the interest she has always shown in my work, and for her encouragement at key moments, which made all the difference. Jonathan Mallinson and Ann Jefferson have given moral support and advice on many occasions over many years, and I would also like to thank Judith Still and Martin Hall, as painstaking examiners of my thesis, for their perceptive comments. Will McMorran, Simon Harvey, and Robin Howells have also provided advice on various parts of the manuscript.
The School of Modern Languages at Queen Mary, University of London, especially the French Department, and latterly, the French Department at Birkbeck, University of London have provided a supportive environment in which to complete this book, and I am very grateful to the Leverhulme Trust for the Early Career Fellowship which has enabled me to finish the project. The staff at libraries around the world, but especially the Rare Books Room at the British Library, the Bibliothque nationale de France, and the Taylorian and Harris Manchester College Libraries in Oxford, have made my work much easier than it might have been. Graham Nelson at Legenda has provided much generous help and advice at every stage of publication, and I would like to thank Polly Fallows for her thoughtful and meticulous copy-editing. I am also grateful for the comments of the anonymous reader.
Last but not least, I must mention the support of friends and family. Many thanks are due to my grandmother Nelly Pesate, for helping me decipher criticism in German which I would otherwise have found very difficult, and to my parents. Alicia Kent and Lisa Downing have been a constant source of encouragement and friendship; and finally, I would like to thank Andrew Block, my husband, for his patience, and for being there for me.
Earlier, or expanded, versions of parts of chapters have previously appeared as follows, and I am grateful to the editors for their advice in the writing of each article: 'Rereading the Forbidden in La Nouvelle Hlose', in Reading and Writing the Forbidden: Essays in French Studies, ed. by Bndicte Facques, Helen Roberts, and Hugh Roberts (Reading: 2001 Group, 2003), pp. 4559; 'La Sensibilit dans les Lettres d'une Pruvienne : exprience esthtique, modle de la communication', in Franoise de Graffigny, femme de lettres: criture et rception, ed. by Jonathan Mallinson (= SVEC 2004:12), pp. 36779; 'Illustrations as Reactions: Three Nineteenth-Century Readings of La Nouvelle Hlose ', in The Discursive Culture: Reaction and Interaction, Text and Context, ed. by Mark Darlow and Caroline Warman (= SVEC 2007:06, 3157), pp. 10332, and 'Sex, Sensibility and Sociability: Illustrating La Vie de Marianne in the Eighteenth Century', in Text, Image and Contemporary Society, ed. by David Adams (= Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 31:3 (2008)), PP. 33175, published by Blackwell in conjunction with BSECS (British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies).