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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Wild Children: Establishing the Boundaries of Nature and Science2. The Animated Statue and the Plasticity of Mankind3. Compromised Idylls: Natural Man and Woman Encultured4. Raising the Rational Child: Real-Life Experiments and Alternatives to Rousseau5. Perfectibility in the Revolutionary Era: Utopian Politics and Dystopian FictionsEpilogue: Monstrous ImperfectionNotesIndex

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Exotic WomenLiterary Heroines and Cultural Strategies in Ancient Régime FranceJulia V. DouthwaiteJulia V. Douthwaite describes the interrelated representations of cultural and sexual difference in key French works of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The heroines of this book are foreign women, brought to France through no will of their own, and forced into the margins of a new society.The author contends that their experience res...

Rousseau and Dignity: Art Serving Humanity is a richly illustrated volume relating a series of events-a photography exhibit, lectures, commentary, and audience reactions by people ages seven to ninety-two-held in the name of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's tercentennial in 2012. Drawn together by the unexpected convergence of a lecture series and art exhibit held in South Bend, Indiana, and a documentary film that was shot simultaneously in Compiègne,...