This volume explores the influence of the lettre de cachet on both Diderot’s personal life and his works, beginning with an examination of Diderot’s experie

The writing of letters and the rise of the novel provided a way for some women to express themselves at a time when the all-male French Academy defined the very

This book traces changing attitudes towards secrecy in eighteenth-century France, and explores the cultural origins of ideas surrounding government transparency

Eliza Haywood was one of the most prolific English writers in the Age of the Enlightenment. Her career, from Love in Excess (1719) to her last completed project

This book interrogates and historicises eighteenth-century British women writers’ responses to India through the novel and travel writing to bring out the pol