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The Republic of Letters: A Cultural History of the French Enlightenment

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Goodman details the history of the Republic of Letters in the Parisian salons, where men and women, philosophes and salonnieres, together not only introduced reciprocity into intellectual life through the practices of letter writing and polite conversation but also developed a republican model of government that was to challenge the monarchy.

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ISBN-13:	9780801429682
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Publication date:	06/28/1994
Series:	9/8/1997
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 1.06(d)
Lexile:	1530L (what's this?)
Age Range:	18 Years

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Dena Goodman is Lila Miller Collegiate Professor of History and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of The Republic of Letters: A Cultural History of the French Enlightenment and Criticism in Action: Enlightenment Experiments in Political Writing, both from Cornell, and the editor or coeditor of several other books including, most recently, Furnishing the Eighteenth Century.

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Fascinating... Rarely does one encounter such a persuasive and startling exposition of the ways inattention to gender and assumptions about women have shaped history.

Journal of Women's History

Goodman (history, Louisiana State Univ.) aims to re-create the social and cultural context in which the ideas of the Enlightenment were created and spread. Drawing from the work of Jrgen Habermas (The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, MIT Pr., 1989), she traces the creation of a public intellectual community in France from the 17th century and explains its development through the French Revolution. Challenging traditional Enlightenment historiography, Goodman describes the Enlightenment as a set of social practices in which both men and women participated. She argues that historians have not taken a positive or serious view of the role of the salonnires. The 1780s, however, saw the emergence of new intellectual institutions in which women were not as central, and an age of "masculine self governance" was born. A difficult but important book that will appeal to scholars of French history and culture.-Marie Marmo Mullaney, Caldwell Coll., N.J.

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Fascinating... Rarely does one encounter such a persuasive and startling exposition of the ways inattention to gender and assumptions about women have shaped history.
-- "Journal of Women's History"

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