The Rise of the Public in Enlightenment Europe

Table of contents

• The Rise of the Public in Enlightenment Europe *
• Title Page *
• Contents ix
• List of Tables xi
• Acknowledgments xiii
• Introduction - What is the Public Sphere? 1
• Part I - Politics and the Rise of “public Opinion”: the Cases of England and France 17
• 1 - The Peculiarities of the English 19
• Bibliographical Note *
• 2 - Opacity and Transparency: French Political Culture in the Eighteenth Century 45
• Bibliographical Note *
• Part II - Readers, Writers, and Spectators 79
• 3 - Reading Publics: Transformations of the Literary Public Sphere 81
• Bibliographical Note *
• 4 - Writing Publics: Eighteenth-Century Authorship 123
• Bibliographical Note *
• 5 - From Courts to Consumers: Theater Publics 160
• Bibliographical Note *
• Part III - Being Sociable 195
• 6 - Women in Public: Enlightenment Salons 197
• Bibliographical Note *
• 7 - Drinking in Public: Taverns and Coffeehouses 226
• Bibliographical Note *
• 8 - Freemasonry: Toward Civil Society 252
• Bibliographical Note *
• Conclusion 273
• Index 277

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