Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Surprising Effects of Sympathy -- 2. La Vie de Marianne , or the Accidents of Autobiography 3. La Religieuse : Sympathy and Seduction -- 4. Forgetting Theater -- 5. Rousseau and the State of Theater -- 6. Frankenstein , or Rousseau's Monster: Sympathy and Speculative Eyes -- Appendix: Mary Shelley and Rousseau -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index