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Diderot

Wilson, Arthur McCandless, 1902- 1972 © Oxford University Press
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Frontmatter

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PART I: THE TESTING YEARS

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Prologue (page 3)

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1. Diderot's Family and Early Childhood (page 9)

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2. Diderot Becomes an Abbé and Goes to Paris (page 20)

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3. Clandestine Marriage (page 37)

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4. First Fruits (page 47)

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5. The Emerging Philosophe (page 59)

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6. The Early History of the Encyclopédie (page 73)

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7. Two Very Different Books (page 83)

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8. Letter on the Blind (page 92)

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9. Diderot in Prison (page 103)

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10. The Prospectus of the Encyclopédie, and Letter on the Deaf and Dumb (page 117)

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11. What Readers Found in Volume I of the Encyclopédie (page 130)

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12. 'Up till Now, Hell Has Vomited its Venom Drop by Drop' (page 150)

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13. The Encyclopédie Recontinued (page 161)

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14. Italian Opera and French Taste (page 173)

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15. Diderot's Thoughts on the Interpretation of Nature (page 187)

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16. 'Man is Born To Think for Himself' (page 199)

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17. Business and Pleasure: A New Contract, Mme Geoffrin's Salon, Sophie Volland (page 218)

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18. 'Changing the General Way of Thinking' (page 232)

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19. Growing Tension with Rousseau: 'Only the Bad Man Lives Alone' (page 247)

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20. How to Write a Play: Example and Precept (page 260)

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21. Rising Opposition; D'Alembert's Blunder in Volume VII (page 275)

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22. 'I Used To Have an Aristarchus . . . I Wish To Have Him No Longer' (page 291)

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23. Signs and Portents of Approaching Eclipse (page 307)

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24. Le Père de Famille and the 'Discourse on Dramatic Poetry' (page 322)

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25. The Death of the Phoenix (page 332)

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EPILOGUE (page 343)

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PART II: THE APPEAL TO POSTERITY, 1759-1784

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Taking Stock (page 349)

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27. Second Wind (page 358)

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28. Grandval (page 372)

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29. The Nun's Story (La Religieuse (page 382)

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30. 'That Tartuffe of a Diderot' (page 392)

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331. Le Père de famille at the Comédie-Française (page 403)

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32. Frustration, Self-assertion, and Wistfulness (page 414)

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33. Concern for the Public Welfare (page 430)

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34. Diderot Sells His Library (page 449)

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35. Perfidy Where Least Expected (page 468)

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36. Private Life and Public Alarms (page 492)

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37. Diderot, Falconet, and Catherine II (page 507)

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38. Diderot as Critic and Philosopher of Art (page 522)

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39. 'It Is Really Bizarre the Variety of Roles I Play in This World' (page 542)

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40. Le Rêve de d'Alembert (1769) (page 557)

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41. A Disturbing Involvement and Its Literary Effects (page 571)

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42. 'I No Longer Have a Child, I Am Alone, and My Solitude Is Unbearable' (page 594)

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43. First Visit to Holland and the Paradoxe sur le comédien (page 618)

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44. Diderot in Russia (page 629)

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45. Return to the West (page 646)

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46. Ethical Doctrine: Determinism and Humanism (page 659)

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47. Indian Summer (page 674)

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48. Last Writings, Ill Health, and Death (page 694)

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EPILOGUE: The Appeal to Posterity (page 714)

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List of Abbreviations (page 719)

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Notes (page 723)

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Bibliography (page 885)

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A Survey of Publications Since 1957 on Diderot's Early Years (page 890)

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Emendations to The Testing Years (page 893)

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Index (page 895)

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Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JPH 58.25 (Dec. 7, 1961): 809-812 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-362X%2819611207%2958%3A25%3C809%3ADTTY1%3E2.0.CO%3B2-M
ET 68.3 (Apr. 1958): 220-221 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0014-1704%28195804%2968%3A3%3C220%3ADTTY1%3E2.0.CO%3B2-2
WMQ 3.15.2 (Apr. 1958): 265-267 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0043-5597%28195804%293%3A15%3A2%3C265%3ADTTY1%3E2.0.CO%3B2-D
MLN 73.4 (Apr. 1958): 305-308 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0149-6611%28195804%2973%3A4%3C305%3ADTTY%3E2.0.CO%3B2-1
JMH 29.4 (Dec. 1957): 374-375 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-2801%28195712%2929%3A4%3C374%3ADTTY%3E2.0.CO%3B2-0
PSQ 72.4 (Dec. 1957): 622-624 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0032-3195%28195712%2972%3A4%3C622%3ADTTY1%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Z
AHR 63.1 (Oct. 1957): 106-108 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28195710%2963%3A1%3C106%3ADTTY1%3E2.0.CO%3B2-A

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