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Preface, Dario Castiglione; preface, Lesley Sharpe; this, that and theother - public, social and private in the 17th and 18th centuries, JohnBrewer; regendering the republic of letters - private association in thepublic sphere, 1780-89, Dena Goodman; addressing the public in 18th-centuryFrench fiction, Malcolm Cook; scandalous femininity - prostitution and18th-century narrative, Vivien Jones; the fear of public disorder - marriagebetween revolution and reaction, Ursula Vogel; Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel -argumentative strategies in the debate on the rights of women, Lesley Sharpe;literatures of publicity and the right to freedom of the press inlate-18th-century Germany - the case of Karl Friedrich Bahrdt, John ChristianLaursen; censorship and the conception of the public in late-18th-centuryGermany - or, are censorship and public opinion mutually exclusive?, EdoardoTortarolo; opinion's metamorphosis - Hume and the perception of publicauthority, Dario Castiglione; an impartial actor - the private and the publicsphere in Adam Smith's "Theory of Moral Sentiments", Maria Luisa Pesante;William Godwin and the idea of historical commemoration - history as publicmemory and private sentiment, Mark Salber Phillips; a historical postscript,Jonathan Barry.