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The Books that Made the European Enlightenment
A History in 12 Case Studies
Taschenbuch von Gary Kates
Sprache: Englisch

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In contrast to traditional Enlightenment studies that focus solely on authors and ideas, Gary Kates' employs a literary lens to offer a wholly original history of the period in Europe from 1699 to 1780. Each chapter is a biography of a book which tells the story of the text from its inception through to the revolutionary era, with wider aspects of the Enlightenment era being revealed through the narrative of the book's publication and reception. Here, Kates joins new approaches to book history with more traditional intellectual history by treating authors, publishers, and readers in a balanced fashion throughout.

Using a unique database of 18th-century editions representing 5,000 titles, the book looks at the multifaceted significance of bestsellers from the time. It analyses key works by Voltaire, Adam Smith, Madame de Graffigny, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and David Hume and champions the importance of a crucial innovation of the age: the rise of the 'erudite blockbuster', which for the first time in European history, helped to popularize political theory among a large portion of the middling classes. Kates also highlights how, when, and why some of these books were read in the European colonies, as well as incorporating the responses of both ordinary men and women as part of the reception histories that are so integral to the volume.
In contrast to traditional Enlightenment studies that focus solely on authors and ideas, Gary Kates' employs a literary lens to offer a wholly original history of the period in Europe from 1699 to 1780. Each chapter is a biography of a book which tells the story of the text from its inception through to the revolutionary era, with wider aspects of the Enlightenment era being revealed through the narrative of the book's publication and reception. Here, Kates joins new approaches to book history with more traditional intellectual history by treating authors, publishers, and readers in a balanced fashion throughout.

Using a unique database of 18th-century editions representing 5,000 titles, the book looks at the multifaceted significance of bestsellers from the time. It analyses key works by Voltaire, Adam Smith, Madame de Graffigny, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and David Hume and champions the importance of a crucial innovation of the age: the rise of the 'erudite blockbuster', which for the first time in European history, helped to popularize political theory among a large portion of the middling classes. Kates also highlights how, when, and why some of these books were read in the European colonies, as well as incorporating the responses of both ordinary men and women as part of the reception histories that are so integral to the volume.
Über den Autor
Gary Kates is H. Russell Smith Foundation Chair in the Social Sciences and Professor of History at Pomona College, USA. He is the author of Rousseau, Burke, and Revolution in France, 1791 2nd Edition (2015; with Jennifer Popiel and Mark C. Carnes) and Monsieur d'Eon Is a Woman: A Tale of Political Intrigue and Sexual Masquerade (1995), which has been translated into three different languages. He is also the editor of The French Revolution: Recent Debates and New Controversies (1988).
Zusammenfassung
Uses the author's unique database of 5,000 18th-century editions
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Illustrations
Preface
1. The Enlightenment Reading Public
2. Fénelon's Adventures of Telemachus (1699)
3. Montesquieu's Persian Letters (1721)
4. Voltaire's History of Charles XII (1731) & Montesquieu's Considerations on the Greatness and Decline of the Romans (1734)
5. Voltaire's Philosophical Letters (1733-1734)
6. Richardson's Pamela (1740)
7. Hume's Essays Moral, Political, and Literary (1741-1742)
8. Graffigny's Letters from a Peruvian Woman (1747)
9. Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws (1748)
10. Rousseau's Emile (1762)
11. Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776)
12. Raynal's Philosophical and Political History of the Two Indies (1770-1780)
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781350277656
ISBN-10: 1350277657
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Kates, Gary
Redaktion: Kümin, Beat
Cowan, Brian
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Maße: 231 x 154 x 26 mm
Von/Mit: Gary Kates
Erscheinungsdatum: 08.09.2022
Gewicht: 0,698 kg
Artikel-ID: 120733352
Über den Autor
Gary Kates is H. Russell Smith Foundation Chair in the Social Sciences and Professor of History at Pomona College, USA. He is the author of Rousseau, Burke, and Revolution in France, 1791 2nd Edition (2015; with Jennifer Popiel and Mark C. Carnes) and Monsieur d'Eon Is a Woman: A Tale of Political Intrigue and Sexual Masquerade (1995), which has been translated into three different languages. He is also the editor of The French Revolution: Recent Debates and New Controversies (1988).
Zusammenfassung
Uses the author's unique database of 5,000 18th-century editions
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Illustrations
Preface
1. The Enlightenment Reading Public
2. Fénelon's Adventures of Telemachus (1699)
3. Montesquieu's Persian Letters (1721)
4. Voltaire's History of Charles XII (1731) & Montesquieu's Considerations on the Greatness and Decline of the Romans (1734)
5. Voltaire's Philosophical Letters (1733-1734)
6. Richardson's Pamela (1740)
7. Hume's Essays Moral, Political, and Literary (1741-1742)
8. Graffigny's Letters from a Peruvian Woman (1747)
9. Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws (1748)
10. Rousseau's Emile (1762)
11. Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776)
12. Raynal's Philosophical and Political History of the Two Indies (1770-1780)
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781350277656
ISBN-10: 1350277657
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Kates, Gary
Redaktion: Kümin, Beat
Cowan, Brian
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Maße: 231 x 154 x 26 mm
Von/Mit: Gary Kates
Erscheinungsdatum: 08.09.2022
Gewicht: 0,698 kg
Artikel-ID: 120733352
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