The republic of letters : a cultural history of the French enlightenment

The republic of letters : a cultural history of the French enlightenment / Dena Goodman.

"In the first major reinterpretation of the French Enlightenment in twenty years, Dena Goodman moves beyond the traditional approach to the Enlightenment as a chapter in Western intellectual history and examines its deeper significance as cultural history. She finds the very epicenter of the En...

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Main Author: Goodman, Dena, 1952- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1994.
Subjects:
1700-1799
French prose literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Enlightenment > France.
Civilization
Enlightenment
French prose literature
Intellectual life
France > Intellectual life > 18th century.
France > Civilization > 18th century.
France
Literary criticism
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: A Cultural History of the French Enlightenment
  • 1. Rise of the State: The Republic of Letters and the Monarchy of France
  • Republic of Letters in the Seventeenth Century
  • Encyclopedie and the Project of Enlightenment
  • Citizenship and the Enlightenment Republic of Letters
  • 2. Philosophes and Salonnieres: A Critique of Enlightenment Historiography
  • Rousseau's Critique of Salons and Philosophes
  • Rousseau's Critique and Twentieth-Century Historiography
  • Enlightenment Salonniere
  • 3. Governing the Republic of Letters: Salonnieres and the Rule(s) of Polite Conversation
  • Cultural Practices of the Old Regime
  • Republican Governance in the Salons
  • Polite Conversation and Enlightenment Discourse
  • 4. Into Writing: Epistolary Commerce in the Republic of Letters
  • Letters in the Enlightenment Republic of Letters
  • Nouvelles a la Main and Correspondances Litteraires
  • Periodicals
  • Public Subscription
  • 5. Into Print: Discord in the Republic of Letters
  • Galiani's Dialogues sur le Commerce des Bles
  • Physiocrats Fight Back
  • Morellet's Refutation
  • Diderot's Apologie
  • 6. Masculine Self-Governance and the End of Salon Culture
  • Apotheosis of Public Opinion
  • Pahin de la Blancherie: General Agent of the Republic of Letters
  • Masonic Sociability
  • Musee de Monsieur
  • Increased Competition and the Struggle for Survival. Conclusion: The Enlightenment Republic of Letters and the French Revolution
  • Brissot's Lycee de Londres
  • Cercle Social and the Jacobin Club
  • Reevaluation of Tocqueville.

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