Networks of Enlightenment : Digital Approaches to the Republic of Letters /: Digital Approaches to the Republic of Letters. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Chloe Edmondson, Dan Edelstein.
• Editors: Edmondson, Chloe; Edelstein, Dan
• Contents: List of figures and tables Dan Edelstein and Chloe Summers Edmonson, Introduction: historical network analysis and social groups in the Enlightenment I. Correspondence networksNicholas Cronk, Voltaire's correspondence network: questions of exploration and interpretationKelsey Rubin-Detlev and Andrew Kahn, Catherine the Great and the art of epistolary networking Cheryl Smeall, 'He belonged to Europe': Francesco Algarotti (1712-1764) and his European networksPierre-Yves Beaurepaire, The networks and the reputation of an ambitious Republican of Letters: Jacques de Pérard (Paris, 1713-Stettin, 1766) II. Social networksChloe Summers Edmonson, Julie de Lespinasse and the 'philosophical' salon Charlotta Wolff, 'Un admirateur des philosophes modernes': the networks of Swedish ambassador Gustav Philip Creutz in Paris, 1766-1783 Maria Teodora Comsa, Casanova's French networks: transitioning from a backstage coterie to the beau monde III. Knowledge networksMelanie Conroy, The eighteenth-century French academic networkMark Algee-Hewitt, The principles of meaning: networks of knowledge in Johnson's Dictionary SummariesBibliography Index.
• Publisher Details: Liverpool : Voltaire Foundation
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: History; Western philosophy: Enlightenment; History -- Europe -- France; History -- Modern -- 18th Century; Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781789625196
• Related ISBNs: 9781786941961
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