The Culture of Power and the Power of Culture Old Regime Europe 1660-1789

by Blanning, T. C. W.

• ISBN13: 9780199265619
• ISBN10: 0199265615
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-10-09
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

In this fascinating new account of Old Regime Europe, T.C.W. Blanning explores the cultural revolution which transformed eighteenth-century Europe. During this period the court culture exemplified by Louis XIV's Versailles was pushed from the center to the margins by the emergence of a new kind of space - the public sphere. The author shows how many of the world's most important cultural institutions developed in this space: the periodical, the newspaper, the novel, the lending library, the coffee house, the voluntary association, the journalist, and the critic.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Culture of Power and the Power of Culture

Overture

Representational Culture and the Public Sphere

The Nation

Representational Culture

Louis XIV and Versailles

The Holy Roman Empire and the Habsburg Monarchy

The Status of the Artist

The Rise of the Public Sphere

Communications

Markets

Revolution

The Rise of the Nation

The British Way

The Cultural Origins of the French Revolution

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

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