The Rise of the Public in Enlightenment Europe (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521469692)

James Melton's accessible study examines the rise of "the public" in eighteenth-century Europe. Focusing on England, France, and the German-speaking territories, this is the first critical reassessment of what the philosopher Jﾜrgen Habermas called the "bourgeois public sphere" of the eighteenth century. Topics include the growing importance of public opinion in political life, transformations of the literary public realm, eighteenth-century authorship, theater publics, and new practices of sociability as they developed in salons, coffeehouses, taverns and Masonic lodges.

Author: James Van Horn Melton
ISBN-10: 0521469694
ISBN-13: 9780521469692
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/06/2001
Pages: 300
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.02w x 0.76d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2002 pg. 1872