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Introduction Patrick Coleman; 1. Revising Descartes: on subject andcommunity Timothy J. Reiss; 2. The 'man of learning' defended:seventeenth-century biographies of scholars and an early modern ideal ofexcellence Peter N. Miller; 3. Life-writing in seventeenth-century EnglandDebora Shuger; 4. Representations of intimacy in the life-writing of AnneClifford and Anne Dormer Mary O'Connor; 5. Gender, genre and theatricality inthe autobiography of Charlotte Charke Robert Folkenflik; 6. Petrarch/Sade:writing the life Julie Candler Hayes; 7. A comic life: Diderot and le recitde vie Stephen Werner; 8. Letters, diary and autobiography ineighteenth-century France Benoit Melancon; 9. Portrait of the object of lovein Rousseau's Confessions Felicity Baker; 10. Fichte's road to Kant AnthonyJ. La Vopa; 11. Mary Robinson and the scripts of female sexuality Anne K.Mellor; 12. After Sir Joshua Richard Wendorf; Index.