The Rise of the Public in Enlightenment EuropeCambridge University Press, 2001 M09 6 - 284 pages James Melton's lucid and accessible study examines the rise of 'the public' in eighteenth-century Europe. A work of comparative synthesis focusing on England, France, and the German-speaking territories, this is the first book-length, critical reassessment of what the philosopher JÜrgen 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, theatre publics, and new practices of sociability as they developed in salons, coffeehouses, taverns and Masonic lodges. |
Contents
The peculiarities of the English | 19 |
Politics and the press | 27 |
Radicalism and extraparliamentary politics after 1760 | 33 |
Ambiguities of the political public sphere | 39 |
Opacity and transparency French political culture in the eighteenth century | 45 |
Jansenism and the emergence of an oppositional public sphere | 48 |
The politics of publicity | 55 |
Secrecy and its discontents | 61 |
Vienna | 183 |
Being sociable | 195 |
Women in public enlightenment salons | 197 |
The rise of the salon | 199 |
Women and sociability in Enlightenment thought | 202 |
Salon culture in eighteenthcentury Paris | 205 |
The salon in eighteenthcentury England | 211 |
Salons of Vienna and Berlin | 215 |
Readers writers and spectators | 79 |
Reading publics transformations of the literary public sphere | 81 |
The reading revolution | 86 |
Periodicals novels and the literary public sphere | 92 |
The rise of the lending library | 104 |
The public and its problems | 110 |
Writing publics eighteenthcentury authorship | 123 |
The status of the author in England France and Germany | 124 |
the rise of copyright | 137 |
Women and authorship | 148 |
From courts to consumers theater publics | 160 |
The stage legitimated | 162 |
The theater and the court | 166 |
London | 171 |
Paris | 177 |
Drinking in public taverns and coffeehouses | 226 |
Alcohol and sociability | 227 |
the case of London | 229 |
from cabaret to cafe | 235 |
The political culture of coffee | 240 |
Coffee capitalism and the world of learning | 244 |
Coffeehouse sociability | 247 |
Freemasonry toward civil society | 252 |
The rise of freemasonry | 254 |
Inclusion and exclusion | 257 |
Freemasonry and politics | 262 |
Conclusion | 273 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Rise of the Public in Enlightenment Europe New Approaches to European History, ISSN 1362-6310 |
| Author | James Van Horn Melton |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2001 |
| ISBN | 0521469694, 9780521469692 |
| Length | 284 pages |
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