The world of the salons : sociability and worldliness in eighteenth-century Paris /
"The world of the 18th century salon has long been lauded as a meritocratic setting where writers, philosophers, and women created the Enlightenment. Based on a thorough study of archival sources and using methodology derived from cultural history, social history, and the history of literature,...
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Oxford University Press,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. From the salon to the world : sociability and distinction
- Sociability and hospitality
- The worldly sphere
- Men of letters and worldly sociability
- Part II. News and opinion : the politics of high society
- Word games : literature and sociability
- Society's judgment and worldly opinion
- Politics in the salon
- Appendix.
