The books that made the European enlightenment: a history in 12 case studies
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 t...
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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. |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 394-426) and index |
| Beschreibung: | vii, 445 Seiten Illustrationen |
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In contrast to traditional Enlightenment studies that focus solely on authors and ideas, Gary Kates employs a bibliographic lens to offer a wholly original history of Europe from 1699 to 1780. Each chapter is a biography of a book 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 7,000 titles, the book looks at the multifaceted significance of bestsellers from the time. It analyses key works by Voltaire, Adam Smith, Madame de Graffigny, JeanJacques Rousseau and David Hume and champions the importance of a crucial innovation of the age: the rise of the “erudite blockbuster” which 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.
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Contents List of Illustrati ons Acknowledgments vi viii Introduction 1 1 The Enlightenment Reading Public 7 2 Fenelon’s The Adventures of Telemachus (1699) 41 3 Montesquieu’s Persian Letters (1721) 75 4 Voltaire’s History of Charles XII (1731) and Montesquieu’s Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and Their Decline ( 1734) 97 5 Voltaire’s Philosophical Letters (1733^1) 131 6 Richardson’s Pamela (1740) 155 7 Hume’s Essays, Moral and Political (1741-2) 177 8 Graffigny’s Letters of a Peruvian Woman ( 1747) 201 9 Montesquieu’s The Spirit of the Laws (1748) 219 10 Rousseau’s Emile (1762) 255 11 Smith’s Wealth ofNations (1776) 277 12 Raynal’s History of the Two Indies (1770-80) 299 Notes Bibliography of Works Cited Index 327 394 427
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