Sociability and Cosmopolitanism

Social Bonds on the Fringes of the Enlightenment

David Burrow, Scott Brueninger (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-66178-3 (ISBN)

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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.

Scott Breuninger, David Burrow

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;

Erscheinungsdatum	24.01.2016
Reihe/Serie	The Enlightenment World
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-138-66178-3 / 1138661783
ISBN-13	978-1-138-66178-3 / 9781138661783
Zustand	Neuware