ISBN:
9781848932623
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (239 p)
Series Statement:
The Enlightenment World
Parallel Title:
Print version Sociability and Cosmopolitanism : Social Bonds on the Fringes of the Enlightenment
DDC:
306.09409033
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This collection of essays expands the focus of Enlightenment studies to include countries outside the core nations of France, Germany and Britain. Notions of sociability and cosmopolitanism are explored as ways in which people sought to improve society
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; 1 Introduction; Part I: European Peripheries; 2 Science, Religion and Sociability in Early Eighteenth-Century Irish Thought; 3 Visualizing Spain's Enlightenment: The Marginal Universality of Deafness; 4 Sociability and Cosmopolitanism in Eighteenth-Century Venice: European Travellers and Venetian Women's Casinos; Part II: Eurasian Borders; 5 At Home in a World of Fictions: Commercial Sociability in Montequieu's Persian Letters
Description / Table of Contents:
6 Prince M. M. Shcherbatov's Critique of the 'Open Table' and the Dynamics of Russian SociabilityPart III: The Atlantic World; 7 Benjamin Vaughan on Commerce and International Harmony in the Eighteenth Century; 8 'Self-Created Societies': Sociability and Statehood in the Pittsburgh Enlightenment; 9 The Margins of Enlightenment: Benjamin Rush, the Rural World and Sociability in Post-Revolutionary Pennsylvania; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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