xxxiv, 312 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 24 cm
Notes:
In English and French with summaries in English
Bibliographic Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-305) and indexes
Contents:
Machine derived contents note: I. Knowledge networks and 'undisciplined objects' -- DANIEL ROSENBERG, We have never been interdisciplinary: -- encyclope lism and etymology in the eighteenth century -- and since 3 -- JAMES D. HERBERT, Looking at Louis XIV looking: the unity of the -- disciplines under an absolute monarch 23 -- ISABELLE MICHEL-EVRARD, Les ressources interdisciplinaires de -- 1'6tude de l'illustration au dix-huiti&me siecle 41 -- MIMI HELLMAN, Object lessons: French decorative art as a model for -- interdisciplinarity 60 -- II. Rescuing the trivial -- MARY SHERIFF, Disciplinary problems in the history of art, or what -- to do with rococo queens 79 -- JENNIFER MII,AM, Play between disciplines: the problem of the ludic -- in rococo art and Enlightenment culture 102 -- III. The politics of interdisciplinarity -- JOAN B. LANDiS, Trespassing: notes from the boundaries 117 -- MARK LEDBU Y, But is it art history? Some thoughts on disciplines, -- tensions a d territories in studies of eighteenth-century art 124 -- IV. DefaRiliarising the familiar -- GREGORY S. BROWN, Beaumarchais, social experience and literary -- figures in eighteenth-century public life 143 -- AMY S. WYNGAARD, Literary texts or historical documents? -- Revisiting the debates on R6tif de La Bretonne 171 -- V. Literat re and law -- JOAN I. SCHWARZ, Evidence and analysis for interdisciplinary -- research it eighteenth-century law and literature 183 -- MIRIAM L. WALLACE, 'Doing' history, or what I learned from the -- 1794 Londcn Treason Trials 201 -- LISA JANE GRAI AM, Scandal: law, literature and morality in the early -- Enlightenmhnt 217 -- VI. Centres and margins, on past and future -- LAURENT LOTY, Pour l'indisciplinarit6 245 -- DAVID ANDRESS, Can culture really explain politics? Interdisciplinary -- historiography, enlightenment and revolution 260 -- JOAN DEJEAN, On becoming a historian 270