Radical writers and the media revolution in the late Enlightenment
Voltaire Foundation (Verlag)
978-1-83553-720-6 (ISBN)
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This book offers a reassessment of radical writing in the late Enlightenment by examining the construction of a provocative authorial posture. It focuses on French and British writers who confronted the authorities as self-proclaimed outsiders, presented their authentic personalities to their readers, and boasted of their own political importance. This posture, and focus of the volume, was possible against the backdrop of an eighteenth-century media revolution that gave print a new presence in many people’s daily lives. To stage protests, create scandals, and encourage political mobilisation, radical writers interacted with a growing and ever-curious audience consuming a variety of printed goods. Radical writing and the media revolution in the late Enlightenment features in-depth case studies of writers such as John Horne Tooke and Olympe de Gouges, among others. It also provides a systematic analysis of typical rhetorical gestures and paratextual forms that were frequently used to create a provocative posture. Finally, this study reconstructs contemporary anxieties about popular writers that have been largely overlooked by scholarship. Indeed, many proponents of the Enlightenment worried that emotions and entertainment were taking over public debate. Rather than siding for or against radical writing and the media revolution, this book uses these critical reactions to re-emphasise the ambivalence of popular politics in the late Enlightenment.
Christoph Streb is a historian working on French and Atlantic cultural history from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. He holds a doctorate from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and the University of Heidelberg and currently is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institut historique allemand in Paris.
Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
Preliminary note on quotations and references
Introduction
Overture: what is the Enlightenment public?
I. Personal protest
La Chalotais goes public (1766-1767)
Persecution narratives and intimate communication
The outsider and the citizen: claims for civil rights
II. Polemical activism
Horne Tooke and the murder incident (1775-1777)
The politics of fire: polemical writing and political scandal
Free press incidents and the contested meaning of critical writing
III. Moral commitment
Clarkson’s journey and the making of the British anti-slavery writer (1769-1808)
Under the influence of humanitarian emotions: the moral self and its readers
Conflicts about the modalities of campaigning
IV. Popular authority
Linguet’s journalism and its public debated by the Enlightenment (around 1780)
New ambitions and new positions
The powers of popularity and the problem of the public
V. Equal expression
Olympe de Gouges’s queer pamphleteering (1788-1793)
Print pluralism: women, people of colour, religious minorities
The amazon problem and its appropriation
Conclusion: light or fire?
Bibliography
Archival sources
Edited sources
Printed sources
Secondary works
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 28.12.2024 |
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Reihe/Serie | Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment ; 2024:12 |
Verlagsort | Liverpool |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-83553-720-0 / 1835537200 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-83553-720-6 / 9781835537206 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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