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Record Nr.

UNINA9910524664403321

Autore

Bond Elizabeth Andrews

Titolo

The Writing Public : Participatory Knowledge Production in Enlightenment and Revolutionary France / / Elizabeth Andrews Bond

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca (New York), : Cornell University Press, 2021

Ithaca, [New York] : , : Cornell University Press, , 2021

©2021

ISBN

1-5017-5356-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 272 pages)

Soggetti

Social conditions

Mass media and public opinion

Letters to the editor

Intellectual life

Mass media and public opinion - France - History - 18th century

Letters to the editor - France - History - 18th century

History

Electronic books.

France

France Social conditions 18th century

France Intellectual life 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

The production and distribution of the information press -- The writers, self-presentation, and subjectivity -- Reading together, book references and reading practices -- Popular science and public participation -- Agricultural reform and local innovation -- Bienfaisance, fellow-feeling, and the public good -- Communicating the revolution.

Sommario/riassunto

"In the letters to the editor published in French newspapers from 1770 to 1791, thousands of writers received and responded to prevailing ideas of their day. This book situates overlooked voices at the center of the Enlightenment, shedding light on the social and material contexts



in which knowledge was produced"--