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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Bond, Elizabeth Andrews. Writing public. Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2021 (DLC) 2020031941 (OCoLC)1151807016 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Elizabeth Andrews Bond |
ISBN: | 9781501753589 1501753584 9781501753572 1501753576 |
OCLC Number: | 1178869041 |
Language Note: | In English. |
Awards: | Winner of David H. Pinkney Prize 2022 (United States) |
Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 272 pages) : illustrations |
Contents: | The production and distribution of the information press -- The writers, self-presentation, and subjectivity -- Reading together, book references and reading practices -- Popular science and public participation -- Agricultural reform and local innovation -- Bienfaisance, fellow-feeling, and the public good -- Communicating the revolution. |
Responsibility: | Elizabeth Andrews Bond. |
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Abstract:
"In the letters to the editor published in French newspapers from 1770 to 1791, thousands of writers received and responded to prevailing ideas of their day. This book situates overlooked voices at the center of the Enlightenment, shedding light on the social and material contexts in which knowledge was produced"--
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- Letters to the editor -- France -- History -- 18th century.
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- France -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
- France -- Social conditions -- 18th century.
- Courrier des lecteurs -- France -- Histoire -- 18e siècle.
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- France -- Vie intellectuelle -- 18e siècle.
- France -- Conditions sociales -- 18e siècle.
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- Language Arts & Disciplines / Writing / Authorship.
- Social Science / Media Studies.
- Intellectual life
- Letters to the editor
- Mass media and public opinion
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- France
- affiches, pre-revolutionary press, revolutionary press, letters to the editor, Knowledge production.