| Description |
1 online resource (511 pages) |
| Summary |
In this fascinating new account of Old Regime Europe, T.C.W. Blanning explores the cultural revolution which transformed eighteenth-century Europe. During this period the court culture exemplified by Louis XIV's Versailles was pushed from the centre to the margins by the emergence of a new kind of space - the public sphere. The author shows how many of the world's most important cultural institutions developed in this space: the periodical, the newspaper, the novel, the lending library, the coffee house, the voluntary association, the journalist, and the critic. It was here that public opinion |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Eighteenth century.
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Eighteenth century
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780198227458 |
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0198227450 |
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