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The rise of the public in Enlightenment Europe

Author: James Van Horn Melton
Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Series: New approaches to European history, 22.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: James Van Horn Melton
ISBN: 0521465737 9780521465731 0521469694 9780521469692
OCLC Number: 46364760
Description: xiv, 284 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
Series Title: New approaches to European history, 22.
Responsibility: James Van Horn Melton.
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