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The rise of the public in Enlightenment Europe / James Van Horn Melton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Melton, James Van Horn, 1952-
- Series:
- New approaches to European history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Enlightenment--Europe.
- Enlightenment.
- Printing--Social aspects.
- Printing.
- Civil society.
- History.
- Europe.
- Europe--Social life and customs--18th century.
- Manners and customs.
- Europe--Intellectual life--18th century.
- Intellectual life.
- Civil society--Europe--History--18th century.
- Printing--Social aspects--Europe--18th century.
- Europe--History--18th century.
- Europe--Civilization--18th century.
- Civilization.
- Europe--Social conditions--18th century.
- Social conditions.
- Europe--Politics and government--18th century.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 284 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
- Summary:
- James Melton??'s lucid and accessible study examines the rise of??the public??? in eighteenth-century Europe.
- Contents:
- Introduction: What is the public sphere? 1
- Part I Politics and the rise of "public opinion": the cases of England and France 17
- 1 The peculiarities of the English 19
- Foundations of English exceptionalism 19
- Politics and the press 27
- Radicalism and extraparliamentary politics after 1760 33
- Ambiguities of the political public sphere 39
- 2 Opacity and transparency: French political culture in the eighteenth century 45
- Jansenism and the emergence of an oppositional public sphere 48
- The politics of publicity 55
- Secrecy and its discontents 61
- Part II Readers, writers, and spectators 79
- 3 Reading publics: transformations of the literary public sphere 81
- Literacy in the eighteenth century 81
- The reading revolution 86
- Periodicals, novels, and the literary public sphere 92
- The rise of the lending library 104
- The public and its problems 110
- 4 Writing publics: eighteenth-century authorship 123
- The status of the author in England, France, and Germany 124
- Authorship as property: the rise of copyright 137
- Women and authorship 148
- 5 From courts to consumers: theater publics 160
- The stage legitimated 162
- The theater and the court 166
- London 171
- Paris 177
- Vienna 183
- Part III Being sociable 195
- 6 Women in public: enlightenment salons 197
- The rise of the salon 199
- Women and sociability in Enlightenment thought 202
- Salon culture in eighteenth-century Paris 205
- The salon in eighteenth-century England 211
- Salons of Vienna and Berlin 215
- 7 Drinking in public: taverns and coffeehouses 226
- Alcohol and sociability 227
- Taverns and politics: the case of London 229
- Paris: from cabaret to cafe 235
- The political culture of coffee 240
- Coffee, capitalism, and the world of learning 244
- Coffeehouse sociability 247
- 8 Freemasonry: toward civil society 252
- The rise of freemasonry 254
- Inclusion and exclusion 257
- Freemasonry and politics 262.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0521465737
- 0521469694
- OCLC:
- 46364760
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