Chapter V: Book IV: The Eighteenth Century

CHAP. I. POETS 395

Literary Degeneracy of the Eighteenth Century, especially manifest in Poetry. J. B. Rousseau. Voltaire. Descriptive Poets. Delille. Lebrun. Parny. Chenier. Minor Poets. Light Verse. Piron. Desaugiers.

CHAP. II. DRAMATISTS 406

Divisions of Drama. La Motte. Crebillon the Elder. Voltaire and his followers. Lesage. Comedie Larmoyante. La Chaussee. Diderot. Marivaux. Beaumarchais. Characteristics of Eighteenth-century Drama.

III. NOVELISTS 416

Lesage. Marivaux. Prevost. Voltaire. Diderot. Rousseau. Crebillon the Younger. Bernardin de St. Pierre. Restif de la Bretonne. Chateaubriand. Madame de Stael. Xavier de Maistre. Benjamin Constant.

IV. HISTORIANS, MEMOIR-WRITERS, LETTER-WRITERS 436

Characteristics and Divisions of Eighteenth-century History. Rollin. Dubos. Boulainvilliers. Voltaire. Mably. Rulhiere. Memoirs. Mme. de Staal-Delaunay. Duclos. Besenval. Madame d'Epinay. Minor Memoirs. Memoirs of the Revolutionary Period. Abundance of Letter-writers. Mademoiselle Aisse. Madame du Deffand. Mademoiselle de Lespinasse. Voltaire. Diderot. Galiani.

V. ESSAYISTS, MINOR MORALISTS, CRITICS 452

Occasional Writing in the Eighteenth-century. Periodicals. Fontenelle. La Motte. Vauvenargues. D'Aguesseau. Duclos. Marmontel. La Harpe. Thomas. Orthodox Apologists. Freron. Philosophe Criticism. D'Alembert. Diderot. Les Feuilles de Grimm. Diderot's Salons. His General Criticism. Newspapers of the Revolution. The Influence of Journalism. Chamfort. Rivarol. Joubert. Courier. Senancour.

VI. PHILOSOPHERS 473

The philosophe movement. Montesquieu. Lettres Persanes. Grandeur et Decadence des Romains. Esprit des Lois. Voltaire. The Encyclopaedia. Diderot. D'Alembert. Rousseau. Political Economists. Vauban, Quesnay, etc. Turgot. Condorcet. Volney. La Mettrie. Helvetius. Systeme de la Nature. Condillac. Joseph de Maistre. Bonald.

VII. SCIENTIFIC WRITERS 499

Buffon. Lesser Scientific Writers. Voyages and Travels. Linguistic and Literary Study.

INTERCHAPTER IV. SUMMARY OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE 504