Networks of enlightenment : digital approaches to the republic of letters

Networks of enlightenment : digital approaches to the republic of letters /

While many periods of history are popularly known by their 'great men', the Enlightenment stands out for the prominence of its 'great groups'. This volume assembles leading scholars using data-driven scholarship to study the networks that made the Enlightenment possible, and cont...

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Other Authors: Edmondson, Chloe (Chloe Summers) (Editor), Edelstein, Dan (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press on behalf of Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford, [2019]
Series:Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment ; 2019:06.
Subjects:
1700-1799
Enlightenment > Europe > History > 18th century.
Enlightenment > France > History > 18th century.
Social networks > Europe > History > 18th century.
Written communication > 18th century.
Didactic literature, French > 18th century > History and criticism.
Siècle des Lumières > Europe > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Siècle des Lumières > France > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Réseaux sociaux > Europe > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Communication écrite > 18e siècle.
Littérature didactique française > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Written communication.
Social networks.
Intellectual life.
Didactic literature, French.
Enlightenment.
History.
Aufklärung.
Geistesleben
Kommunikation
Philosoph
Soziales Netzwerk
Europe > Intellectual life > History > 18th century.
Europe > Vie intellectuelle > Histoire > 18e siècle.
France.
Europe.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: historical network analysis and social groups in the Enlightenment / Dan Edelstein and Chloe Summers Edmondson
  • Voltaire's correspondence network: questions of exploration and interpretation / Nicholas Cronk
  • Catherine the Great and the art of epistolary networking / Kelsey Rubin-Detlev and Andrew Kahn
  • 'He belonged to Europe': Francesco Algarotti (1712-1764) and his European networks / Cheryl Smeall
  • The networks and the reputation of an ambitious Republican of Letters: Jacques de Pérard (Paris, 1713-Stettin, 1766) / Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire
  • Julie de Lespinasse and the 'philosophical' salon / Chloe Summers Edmondson
  • 'Un admirateur des philosophes modernes': the networks of Swedish ambassador Gustav Philip Creutz in Paris, 1766-1783 / Charlotta Wolff
  • Casanova's French networks: transitioning from a backstage coterie to the beau monde / Maria Teodora Comsa
  • The eighteenth-century French academic network / Melanie Conroy
  • The principles of meaning: networks of knowledge in Johnson's Dictionary / Mark Algee-Hewitt.

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