| The Rise of the Public in Enlightenment Europe Contributor(s): Melton, James Van Horn (Author) |
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ISBN: 0511819420 ISBN-13: 9780511819421 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $494.00 Product Type: Open Ebook - Other Formats Published: June 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - General |
| Dewey: 940.28 |
| Lexile Measure: 1540 |
| Series: New Approaches to European History |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: James Melton's accessible study examines the rise of the public in eighteenth-century Europe. Focusing on England, France, and the German-speaking territories, this is the first critical reassessment of what the philosopher J rgen Habermas called the bourgeois public sphere of the eighteenth century. Topics include the growing importance of public opinion in political life, transformations of the literary public realm, eighteenth-century authorship, theater publics, and new practices of sociability as they developed in salons, coffeehouses, taverns and Masonic lodges. |