This article reviews the book "Changing Minds: The Shifting Perception of Culture in Eighteenth-Century France," by John C. O'Neal, published in 2002.

This article reviews the book "The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century: Reassessments and New Approaches," edited by Jay M. Smith and published in 2006.

This book review discusses 'The Politics of Appearances: Representations of Dress in Revolutionary France,' by Richard Wrigley and published in 2002.

This article reviews the book "From Wives to Widows in Early Modern Paris: Gender, Economy, and Law," by Janine M. Lanza published in 2007.

This bibliography provides an overview of eighteenth-century women authors at the dawn of the twenty-first century.

Article on Marie Jeanne Riccoboni's 'Lettres d'Élisabeth Sophie de Vallière' and writing in the female voice.

Article on two novels by author Marie Jeanne Riccoboni, 'Histoire d'Ernestine,' published in 1765, and 'Lettres d'Elisabeth Sophie de Vallière à Louise Hortence de Canteleu, son amie,' published in 1772.

Article on widows and Marie Jeanne Riccoboni's 'Lettres d'Adélaïde de Dammartin.' This is a selected essay from the Women in French International Conference in 2006.

This article reviews the book "Science in the Age of Sensibility: The Sentimental Empiricists of the French Enlightenment," by Jessica Riskin and published in 2002.

Article on the presence and absence of the past and the sites of memory and forgetting in F. C. Delius' "Die Flatterzunge."

Article on official and unofficial censorship procedures in the German Democratic Republic and the case of Günter Kunert.

Book chapter on Frances Brooke's "History of Emily Montague" and the epistolarity at the transatlantic intersection of public and private.

Book chapter on the novelist Madame Riccoboni with letters by Madame de Sancerre and a letter addressed to David Garrick.

Article discussing a newly discovered 1722 letter by fan- and miniature painter Louis Goupy (1675-1747).

Article on epistolary silence in Françoise de Graffigny's 'Lettres d'une Péruvienne.'

Article on overcoming the silence and narrative strategies in Günter Grass's "Beim Häuten der Zwiebel."

Article discussing Peter Schneider's "Eduards Heimkehr" and the image of the "New Berlin."

Article discussing "Zur Sache Deutschland" and Volker Braun taking stock of his life.

This book chapter discusses Berlin, Germany and images of the city in short fiction.

This book chapter discusses Berlin, Germany and the architectural, social, and artistic change.

Encyclopedia article discussing East Germany.

Article on sexual contract and mariage blanc. Abstract: Reading Marie Jeanne Riccoboni's biography as exemplifying eighteenth-century marriage based on women's limited legal recourse within the marriage contract, I argue that the author offers women an empowering alternative to the sexual contract in her fiction, a mariage blanc based on friendship.

Article on the development of female identity in Françoise Graffigny.

Encyclopedia article discussing the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and the ministry for state security (Stasi) from 1950 to 1989.