The Rise of the Public in Enlightenment Europe

by Melton, James Van Horn

• ISBN13: 9780511037764
• ISBN10: 0511037767
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2001-09-06
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

James Melton??'s lucid and accessible study examines the rise of??the public??? in eighteenth-century Europe.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction What is the Public Sphere?	p. 1
Politics and the Rise of "public Opinion": the Cases of England and France	p. 17
The Peculiarities of the English	p. 19
Bibliographical Note	p. 42
Opacity and Transparency: French Political Culture in the Eighteenth Century	p. 45
Bibliographical Note	p. 75
Readers, Writers, and Spectators	p. 79
Reading Publics: Transformations of the Literary Public Sphere	p. 81
Bibliographical Note	p. 119
Writing Publics: Eighteenth-Century Authorship	p. 123
Bibliographical Note	p. 157
From Courts to Consumers: Theater Publics	p. 160
Bibliographical Note	p. 191
Being Sociable	p. 195
Women in Public: Enlightenment Salons	p. 197
Bibliographical Note	p. 224
Drinking in Public: Taverns and Coffeehouses	p. 226
Bibliographical Note	p. 250
Freemasonry: Toward Civil Society	p. 252
Bibliographical Note	p. 270
Conclusion	p. 273
Index	p. 277
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