INTIMATE, INTRUSIVE, AND TRIUMPHANT Readers in the Liaisons dangereuses -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Preface Pentecost: The Feast of the Reader -- 1. Introduction to the Fictional Reader -- Definition of the Fictional Reader -- Editeur, Rédacteur, and Mme de Rosemonde -- The Postal System: Privileging the Addressee -- Reading : The Power of the Word -- 2. A Theory of Fictional Readers and Their Reading -- Awareness of the Reader -- The Bonds of Confidence -- Receiving and Responding -- The Dangers of Reading -- Writing/Reading: The Ultimate Act -- 3. Hidden Readers -- Valmont: The Reader as Thief -- The Invited Intruder: Mme de Merteuil -- 4. Split Personalities: Characterizing Writers and Readers -- Cécile Volanges -- Mme deVolanges -- The Chevalier Danceny -- Mme deRosemonde -- 5. Writer vs. Reader: The Struggle for Power -- The Written Battle Lines -- The Readerly Armageddon -- The Moral Reader -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- The Text -- Secondary Readings.