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by Dena Goodman. 338 pgs.

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Table of contents
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
A NOTE TO THE READER xiii
Introduction: A Cultural History of the French Enlightenment 1
The Rise of the State: The Republic of Letters and the Monarchy of France 12
The Republic of Letters in the Seventeenth Century 15
The Encyclopédle and the Project of Enlightenment 23
Citizenship and the Enlightenment Republic of Letters 34
Philosophes and Salonnières: A Critique of Enlightenment Historiography 53
Rousseau's Critique of Salons and Philosophes 54
Rousseau's Critique and Twentieth-Century Historiography 56
The Enlightenment Salonniére 73
Governing the Republic of Letters: Salonnières and the Rule(s) of Polite Conversation 90
Cultural Practices of the Old Regime 91
Republican Governance in the Salons 99
Polite Conversation and Enlightenment Discourse 111
Into Writing: Epistolary Commerce in the Republic of Letters 136
Letters in the Enlightenment Republic of Letters 139
Nouvelles à la Main and Correspondances Littéaires 152
Periodicals 165
Public Subscription 175
Into Print: Discord in the Republic of Letters 183
Galiani's Dialogues sur le Commerce des Blés 187
The Physiocrats Fight Back 197
Morellet's Réfutation 204
Diderot's Apologie 215
Masculine Self-Governance and the End of Salon Culture 233
The Apotheosis of Public Opinion 235
Pahin de La Blancherie: General Agent of the Republic of Letters 242
Masonic Sociability 253
The Musée de Monsieur 259
Increased Competition and the Struggle for Survival 276
Conclusion: The Enlightenment Republic of Letters and the French Revolution 281
Brissot's Lycée de Londres 281
The Cercle Social and the Jacobin Club 288
A Reevaluation of Tocqueville 300
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 305
WORKS CITED 313
INDEX 329
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