The rise of the public in Enlightenment Europe / James Van Horn Melton.

In the New Approaches to European History series, this title provides an inter-disciplinary study of the rise of 'the public' in eighteenth-century Europe. James Melton's lucid and accessible account will be of interest to students of social and political history, literary studies, po...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Melton, James Van Horn, 1952-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Series:New approaches to European history ; 22.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: What is the public sphere?
  • pt. 1. Politics and the rise of "public opinion": the cases of England and France: The peculiarities of the English
  • Opacity and transparency: French political culture in the eighteenth century
  • pt. 2. Readers, writers, and spectators: Reading publics: transformations of the literary public sphere
  • Writing publics: eighteenth-century authorship
  • From courts to consumers: theater publics
  • pt. 3. Being sociable: Women in public: Enlightenment salons
  • Drinking in public: taverns and coffeehouses
  • Freemasonry: toward civil society.