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Author Bond, Elizabeth Andrews, author.

Title The Writing Public Participatory Knowledge Production in Enlightenment and Revolutionary France / Elizabeth Andrews Bond.

Publication Info. Ithaca, [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021.
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021.
©2021.

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 272 pages)
text file
Series Book collections on Project MUSE.
Contents The production and distribution of the information press -- The writers, self-presentation, and subjectivity -- Reading together, book references and reading practices -- Popular science and public participation -- Agricultural reform and local innovation -- Bienfaisance, fellow-feeling, and the public good -- Communicating the revolution.
Access Open Access Unrestricted online access
Summary "In the letters to the editor published in French newspapers from 1770 to 1791, thousands of writers received and responded to prevailing ideas of their day. This book situates overlooked voices at the center of the Enlightenment, shedding light on the social and material contexts in which knowledge was produced"-- Provided by publisher.
Local Note Project Muse Project Muse Open Access
Subject Social conditions.
Mass media and public opinion.
Letters to the editor.
Intellectual life.
Mass media and public opinion -- France -- History -- 18th century.
France.
History.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Letters to the editor -- France -- History -- 18th century.
France -- Social conditions -- 18th century.
France -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
Genre/Form History.
Electronic books. .
Added Author Project Muse, distributor.
ISBN 9781501753572
9781501753565
1501753568