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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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press on behalf of Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford,
[2019]
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Series: | Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment ;
2019:06. |
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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.