From Savage to Citizen: The Invention of the Peasant in the French Enlightenment Book

	Introduction : inventing the peasant in Enlightenment France	13
	The politics of rural representation, 1607-1719	16
	Culture and ideology in the Enlightenment and beyond	30
1	The peasant as aristocrat : masquerade and society in the works of Marivaux and Watteau	35
	Social mobility and cultural change in the early eighteenth century	38
	Class and clothing in the works of Marivaux	41
	Watteau and the theatricality of class identity	59
2	The sentimental peasant : moral economy and the social hierarchy in mid century	71
	The aesthetics and politics of rural representation in the mid eighteenth century	74
	Patriarchal society or fraternal community? : views of the countryside in Favart, Sedaine, and Marmontel	81
	Family drama and the social imaginary in Greuze's rural canvases	97
3	The country and the city : rural family values and urban dissolution in Retif de la Bretonne and Fragonard	111
	Demographic change and moral nostalgia in late eighteenth-century France	115
	Libertine spaces : anonymous crowds, secret chambers, and urban corruption in Retif de la Bretonne	118
	Moral policing and the collective gaze in Retif's rural communities	131
	Morality and sexuality in Fragonard's canvases	140
4	Peasant and revolution : confronting fiction and reality at the end of the century	151
	Bringing the condition of the peasant to light : progress and paradoxes	156
	Young, Legrand d'Aussy, and the challenge to Enlightenment constructions of the peasant, 1787-94	161
	Social consciousness, rural revolt, and revolution	171
	Coda : the peasant today	191