Sociability and Cosmopolitanism

Social Bonds on the Fringes of the Enlightenment
Herausgeber: Brueninger, Scott; Burrow, David

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays expands the focus of Enlightenment studies to include countries outside the core nations of France, Germany and Britain. Notions of sociability and cosmopolitanism are explored as ways in which people sought to improve society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 371g
• ISBN-13: 9781138661783
• ISBN-10: 1138661783
• Artikelnr.: 45219130

Autorenporträt

Scott Breuninger, David Burrow

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction, Scott Breuninger; Chapter 2 Science, Religion and
Sociability in Early Eighteenth-Century Irish Thought, Scott Breuninger;
Chapter 3 Visualizing Spain's Enlightenment: The Marginal Universality of
Deafness, Benjamin Fraser; Chapter 4 Sociability and Cosmopolitanism in
Eighteenth-Century Venice: European Travellers and Venetian Women's
Casinos, Marianna D'Ezio; Chapter 5 At Home in a World of Fictions:
Commercial Sociability in Montesquieu's Persian Letters, Mark Nixon;
Chapter 6 Prince M. M. Shcherbatov's Critique of the 'Open Table' and the
Dynamics of Russian Sociability, David Burrow; Chapter 7 Benjamin Vaughan
on Commerce and International Harmony in the Eighteenth Century, Andrew
Hamilton; Chapter 8 'Self-Created Societies': Sociability and Statehood in
the Pittsburgh Enlightenment, Leonard von Morzé; Chapter 9 The Margins of
Enlightenment: Benjamin Rush, The Rural World and Sociability in
Post-Revolutionary Pennsylvania, Michael McCoy;