Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction xi
6. 1. The Christian idea of love and marriage 1
7. 2. The inner connection between the seventeenth-century nouvelle and the eighteenth-century roman érotique 13
8. 3. Aristocratic manners 25
9. 4. Aristocratic perversity in the roman érotique 44
10. 5. Sentimentalism and moralistic literature 61
11. 6. Marriage and moralistic literature 77
12. 7. The social context of moralistic literature 86
13. 8. Social discontent in French literature 103
14. 9. Erotic love in eighteenth-century painting 112
15. 10. Didacticism in eighteenth-century painting 123
16. 11. Duality in literature and painting 137
17. 12. Conclusion 146
18. Notes 153
19. Bibliography 165
20. Index 181