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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Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2001.
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Series: | New approaches to European history ;
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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.