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The Republic of Letters: A Cultural History of the French Enlightenment
Dena Goodman
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Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, 5. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 25. Weight in Grams: 562.
In the first major reinterpretation of the French Enlightenment in twenty years, Dena Goodman moves beyond the traditional approach to the Enlightenment as a chapter in Western intellectual history and examines its deeper significance as cultural history. She finds the very epicenter of the Enlightenment in a community of discourse known as the Republic of Letters, where salons governed by women advanced the Enlightenment project "to change the common way of thinking." Goodman details the history of the Republic of Letters in the Parisian salons, where men and women, philosophes and salonnieres, together not only introduced reciprocity into intellectual life ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801481741
SKU
V9780801481741
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Reviews for The Republic of Letters: A Cultural History of the French Enlightenment
Fascinating... Rarely does one encounter such a persuasive and startling exposition of the ways inattention to gender and assumptions about women have shaped history.
Journal of Women's History
Journal of Women's History