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Tables of Contents for Rousseau's Republican Romance
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
ix
A Note on Texts and Translations
xiii
Introduction How to Engender a Political Subject
3
21
Savage Sensibilities
24
34
Impossible Beginnings
24
6
Perfecting Pity
30
7
(Re)Constituting Nature
37
7
State Power and Servile Desire
44
10
``To suffer is the first thing he ought to learn...''
54
4
Object Lessons
58
44
Sensing the Difference
58
5
To What Does Sex Refer?
63
7
Guys and Dolls
70
7
Imagining Sophie
77
7
Marital Arts
84
8
Paternalism, Barbarism, Freedom, and the State
92
10
Life Stories
102
42
Textual Symptoms
102
6
Novel Creations
108
6
Gilded Privations
114
7
Chalet Morality
121
6
Picture Perfect
127
4
Self-Perfecting Narratives
131
13
Loving the Body Politic
144
25
Wordplay
144
4
Personations
148
6
Maternal Learning
154
9
National Erotics
163
6
Republican Performances
169
38
What's Your Pleasure?
169
5
Inside the Cave
174
6
``That charming sentiment of shame ...''
180
6
Masters of Philosophy
186
5
Speaking to the Eyes
191
6
Getting a Taste for One Another
197
10
Making Rhetoric Matter
207
38
Agonies and Ecstasies
207
4
The Story and Two Deferrals
211
6
Dilemmas of Desire
217
8
Acting Free
225
7
Sovereign Representations
232
4
Conclusion Isn't It Romantic?
236
9
Works Cited
245
6
Index
251