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| Introduction | 1 | |
| 1 | The History of 'Nuances': Imitation in the Eighteenth Century | 7 |
| 1.1 | The 'querelle du coloris' | 11 |
| 1.2 | Le Blon's invention of colour engraving | 16 |
| 1.3 | Castel's colour harpsichord and colour weaving | 19 |
| 1.4 | Girard and synonymy | 27 |
| 1.5 | Condillac's Art d'ecrire | 30 |
| 1.6 | Bievre's 'calembours' | 32 |
| 1.7 | Diderot's article 'Beau' | 35 |
| 1.8 | D'Alembert, Court de Gebelin, and encyclopaedias | 37 |
| 1.9 | The theory of genres | 41 |
| 2 | Preciosity and its Discontents | 49 |
| 2.1 | Marivaux and two kinds of 'clarte' | 51 |
| 2.2 | Houdar de La Motte's idea of poetry and prose | 55 |
| 2.3 | Criticism of preciosity | 65 |
| 2.4 | Fenelon's compromise | 70 |
| 2.5 | Girard's compromise: Synonymes francois | 73 |
| 2.6 | Dumarsais's compromise: Traite des tropes | 76 |
| 2.7 | Olivet's compromise: Prosodie | 83 |
| 3 | Condillac's Idea of 'Nature' | 91 |
| 3.1 | Semiosis | 92 |
| 3.2 | Empathy in the origin of language | 95 |
| 3.3 | From 'nature' to 'second nature' in language | 98 |
| 3.4 | Diderot and composition in painting | 103 |
| 3.5 | Empathy and gesture in the 'drame bourgeois' | 104 |
| 3.6 | Rousseau and the figurative origins of language | 112 |
| 3.7 | Buffon's universal style | 121 |
| 4 | Linguistic and Poetic Sound Symbolism | 129 |
| 4.1 | De Brosses's theory of phonomimetism | 130 |
| 4.2 | Court de Gebelin's theory of phonomimetism | 140 |
| 4.3 | Sound symbolism in poetry | 146 |
| 4.4 | Diderot's hieroglyph | 153 |
| 4.5 | The perfect language | 157 |
| 4.6 | De Piis and sound symbolism in poetry | 160 |
| 4.7 | 'Etymologie' as a theory of poetry | 171 |
| 5 | The Dissolution of Language | 179 |
| 5.1 | The linguistic philosophy of 'ideologie' | 181 |
| 5.2 | Universal language schemes: Locke, Delormel, and Maimieux | 188 |
| 5.3 | L'Epee's sign language | 199 |
| 5.4 | Sicard's sign language | 203 |
| 5.5 | Condillac's algebraic language | 205 |
| 5.6 | The literary aesthetics of 'impertinence' | 209 |
| 5.7 | Mercier's literary aesthetics | 215 |
| 5.8 | Mercier and necrophilia | 218 |
| 5.9 | Mercier's Tableau de Paris | 224 |
| Conclusion | 228 | |
| App | La Motte, OEdipe, tragedie, Act III, scene vi, extract | |
| App | La Motte, OEdipe, tragedie en prose, Act III, scene v, extract | |
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