Format:
1 online resource (300 pages)
ISBN:
9780511154218
Series Statement:
New Approaches to European History v.23
Content:
James Melton's lucid and accessible 2001 study examines the rise of 'the public' in eighteenth-century Europe.
Content:
Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction What is the public sphere? -- Part I Politics and the rise of "public opinion": the cases of England and France -- 1 The peculiarities of the English -- Foundations of English exceptionalism -- Politics and the press -- Radicalism and extraparliamentary politics after 1760 -- Ambiguities of the political public sphere -- Bibliographical note -- 2 Opacity and transparency: French political culture in the eighteenth century -- Jansenism and the emergence of an oppositional public sphere -- The politics of publicity -- Secrecy and its discontents -- Bibliographical note -- Part II Readers, writers, and spectators -- 3 Reading publics: transformations of the literary public sphere -- Literacy in the eighteenth century -- The reading revolution -- Periodicals, novels, and the literary public sphere -- The rise of the lending library -- The public and its problems -- Bibliographical note -- 4 Writing publics: eighteenth-century authorship -- The status of the author in England, France, and Germany -- Authorship as property: the rise of copyright -- Women and authorship -- Bibliographical note -- 5 From courts to consumers: theater publics -- The stage legitimated -- The theater and the court -- London -- Paris -- Vienna -- Bibliographical note -- Part III Being sociable -- 6 Women in public: enlightenment salons -- The rise of the salon -- Women and sociability in Enlightenment thought -- Salon culture in eighteenth-century Paris -- The salon in eighteenth-century England -- Salons of Vienna and Berlin -- Bibliographical note -- 7 Drinking in public: taverns and coffeehouses -- Alcohol and sociability -- Taverns and politics: the case of London -- Paris: from cabaret to café -- The political culture of coffee.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521465731
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521465731
Additional Edition:
Print version The Rise of the Public in Enlightenment Europe
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=201943
