The Books that Made the European Enlightenment
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-27765-6 (ISBN)
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.
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).
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
Erscheinungsdatum | 08.09.2022 |
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Reihe/Serie | Cultures of Early Modern Europe |
Zusatzinfo | 23 bw illus |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-350-27765-7 / 1350277657 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-27765-6 / 9781350277656 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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