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Title:

Networks of enlightenment : digital approaches to the republic of letters / edited by Chloe Edmondson and Dan Edelstein.

Publisher:

Liverpool University Press on behalf of Voltaire FoundationUniversity of Oxford,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

xii, 303 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Subject:

Enlightenment--Europe--History--18th century.
Enlightenment--France--History--18th century.
Social networks--Europe--History--18th century.
Written communication--18th century.
Didactic literature, French--18th century--History and criticism.
Europe--History--History--18th century.
Written communication.
Social networks.
Intellectual life.
Didactic literature, French.
Enlightenment.
History.
France.
Europe.
1700-1799
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Other Authors:

Edmondson, Chloe (Chloe Summers), editor.
Edelstein, Dan, editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-297) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: historical network analysis and social groups in the Enlightenment / Dan Edelstein and Chloe Summers Edmondson -- Voltaire's correspondence network: questions of exploration and interpretation / Nicholas Cronk -- Catherine the Great and the art of epistolary networking / Kelsey Rubin-Detlev and Andrew Kahn -- 'He belonged to Europe': Francesco Algarotti (1712-1764) and his European networks / Cheryl Smeall -- The networks and the reputation of an ambitious Republican of Letters: Jacques de Pérard (Paris, 1713-Stettin, 1766) / Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire -- Julie de Lespinasse and the 'philosophical' salon / Chloe Summers Edmondson -- 'Un admirateur des philosophes modernes': the networks of Swedish ambassador Gustav Philip Creutz in Paris, 1766-1783 / Charlotta Wolff -- Casanova's French networks: transitioning from a backstage coterie to the beau monde / Maria Teodora Comsa -- The eighteenth-century French academic network / Melanie Conroy -- The principles of meaning: networks of knowledge in Johnson's Dictionary / Mark Algee-Hewitt.

Summary:

While many periods of history are popularly known by their 'great men', the Enlightenment stands out for the prominence of its 'great groups'. This volume assembles leading scholars using data-driven scholarship to study the networks that made the Enlightenment possible, and contributed to creating a new sense of European identity. From Voltaire's correspondence with Catherine the Great, to Adam Smith's travels on the European continent, mediated and unmediated communication networks were the lifeline of the Enlightenment. What is particularly notable about the Enlightenment is how these different networks were central to their participants' identity. One could not take part in the Enlightenment on one's own. Although some older historical studies highlight the importance of social networks in the Enlightenment, data-driven approaches allow for a more comprehensive and granular understanding of the many different types of networks that formed the intellectual and cultural infrastructure of the Enlightenment throughout Europe. The recent influx of metadata from the correspondences of major Enlightenment figures now allows scholars to study these networks at both the micro and macro levels, and to explore the worlds of the philosophes and the "nodes" in their networks in rich detail. It is at this intersection of Enlightenment historiography, data capture, and social network analysis that the essays collected in this volume all fall, taking advantage of new data sources, configurations, and modes of analysis to deepen our understanding of how Enlightenment sociability worked, who it included, and what it meant for participants. -- Publisher.

Series:

Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment, 0435-2866 ; 2019:06

ISBN:

1786941961
9781786941961

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1057786719

LCCN:

2019393370

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)