Networks of Enlightenment

Digital Approaches to the Republic of Letters

by Chloe Summers EdmondsonDan Edelstein

Contributors: Nicholas CronkKelsey Rubin-DetlevCheryl SmeallPierre-Yves BeaurepaireChloe Summers EdmondsonCharlotta WolffMaria Teodora ComsaMelanie ConroyMark Algee-Hewitt

This volume explores the centrality of social networks to the culture and identity of the Enlightenment. An individual in eighteenth-century Europe, no matter how intellectually engaged, simply could not take part in the Enlightenment on his or her own. Rather, one participated in one or more social networks, which informed the experiences and identities of their participants -- and thereby made up the social infrastructure of the Enlightenment. The essays in this volume offer fresh perspectives by drawing upon metadata captured from recently digitized correspondences of major Enlightenment figures and then mapping, conceptually as well as literally, the philosophes as "nodes" of complex and dynamic networks. These essays thereby explore with unprecedented detail the social, linguistic, geographic and institutional configurations of the Enlightenment.

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About the digital edition of "Networks of Enlightenment"

This digital edition includes the complete Table of Contents, the full text of the Introduction, and summaries of each of the chapters. It also includes, in the Resource Collections below, high-resolution versions of all the figures, tables and images which appear in the book. The chapter summaries and figures, tables and illustrations are grouped into the three sections of the book.

Front Matter

Table of Contents
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List of Tables and Figures
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Chapter summariesChapters 1 - 9 of "Networks of Enlightenment"
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Introduction

IntroductionHistorical network analysis and social groups in the Enlightenment
by Chloe Summers Edmondson, Dan Edelstein
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Part 1: Correspondence Networks

Chapter 1Voltaire’s correspondence network: questions of exploration and interpretation
by Nicholas Cronk
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Chapter 2Catherine the Great and the art of epistolary networking
by Kelsey Rubin-Detlev, Andrew Kahn
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Chapter 3‘He belonged to Europe’: Francesco Algarotti (1712-1764) and his European networks
by Cheryl Smeall
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Chapter 4The networks and the reputation of an ambitious Republican of Letters: Jacques de Pérard (Paris, 1713-Stettin, 1766)
by Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire
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Part 2 : Social Networks

Chapter 5Julie de Lespinasse and the ‘philosophical’ salon
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Chapter 6‘Un admirateur des philosophes modernes’: the networks of Swedish ambassador Gustav Philip Creutz in Paris, 1766-1783
by Charlotta Wolff
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Chapter 7Casanova’s French networks: transitioning from a backstage coterie to the beau monde
by Maria Teodora Comsa
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Part 3: Knowledge Networks

Chapter 8The eighteenth-century French academic network
by Melanie Conroy
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Chapter 9The principles of meaning: networks of knowledge in Johnson’s Dictionary
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Metadata

isbn
9781786941961
publisher
Liverpool University Press
publisher place
Liverpool
rights
Copyright Liverpool University Press
rights territory
World
series number
2019:06
series title
Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment

Networks of Enlightenment

About the digital edition of "Networks of Enlightenment"

Front Matter

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures

Chapter summariesChapters 1 - 9 of "Networks of Enlightenment"

Introduction

IntroductionHistorical network analysis and social groups in the Enlightenment

Part 1: Correspondence Networks

Chapter 1Voltaire’s correspondence network: questions of exploration and interpretation

Chapter 2Catherine the Great and the art of epistolary networking

Chapter 3‘He belonged to Europe’: Francesco Algarotti (1712-1764) and his European networks

Chapter 4The networks and the reputation of an ambitious Republican of Letters: Jacques de Pérard (Paris, 1713-Stettin, 1766)

Part 2 : Social Networks

Chapter 5Julie de Lespinasse and the ‘philosophical’ salon

Chapter 6‘Un admirateur des philosophes modernes’: the networks of Swedish ambassador Gustav Philip Creutz in Paris, 1766-1783

Chapter 7Casanova’s French networks: transitioning from a backstage coterie to the beau monde

Part 3: Knowledge Networks

Chapter 8The eighteenth-century French academic network

Chapter 9The principles of meaning: networks of knowledge in Johnson’s Dictionary

Figures, Tables and Images

Introduction

Part 1 : Correspondence Networks

Part 2 : Social Networks

Part 3 : Knowledge Networks

Blog: Networks of the Enlightenment: New Approaches, New Perspectives

Figure 01-Potential versus existing relationships in a social network

Figure 02-Transmission of disease versus transmission of ideas.

Figure 03-Filtering mechanism between social groups.

Figure 04-Voltaire’s correspondence network

Figure 05-French stamp

Figure 06- Catherine the Great's connections with French cultural figures, 1762 - 1774

Figure 07- Algarotti's travels across Europe

Figure 08-Algarotti’s epistolary network: letters written by Algarotti

Figure 09-Algarotti’s epistolary network: letters written to Algarotti

Metadata

Front Matter

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures

Chapter summariesChapters 1 - 9 of "Networks of Enlightenment"

Introduction

IntroductionHistorical network analysis and social groups in the Enlightenment

Part 1: Correspondence Networks

Chapter 1Voltaire’s correspondence network: questions of exploration and interpretation

Chapter 2Catherine the Great and the art of epistolary networking

Chapter 3‘He belonged to Europe’: Francesco Algarotti (1712-1764) and his European networks

Chapter 4The networks and the reputation of an ambitious Republican of Letters: Jacques de Pérard (Paris, 1713-Stettin, 1766)

Part 2 : Social Networks

Chapter 5Julie de Lespinasse and the ‘philosophical’ salon

Chapter 6‘Un admirateur des philosophes modernes’: the networks of Swedish ambassador Gustav Philip Creutz in Paris, 1766-1783

Chapter 7Casanova’s French networks: transitioning from a backstage coterie to the beau monde

Part 3: Knowledge Networks

Chapter 8The eighteenth-century French academic network

Chapter 9The principles of meaning: networks of knowledge in Johnson’s Dictionary

Resource Collections

Introduction

Part 1 : Correspondence Networks

Part 2 : Social Networks

Part 3 : Knowledge Networks

Single Resources

Blog: Networks of the Enlightenment: New Approaches, New Perspectives

Figure 01-Potential versus existing relationships in a social network

Figure 02-Transmission of disease versus transmission of ideas.

Figure 03-Filtering mechanism between social groups.

Figure 04-Voltaire’s correspondence network

Figure 05-French stamp

Figure 06- Catherine the Great's connections with French cultural figures, 1762 - 1774

Figure 07- Algarotti's travels across Europe

Figure 08-Algarotti’s epistolary network: letters written by Algarotti

Figure 09-Algarotti’s epistolary network: letters written to Algarotti