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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.

This digital edition offers readers the full-text Introduction, Table of Contents and chapter summaries, as well as high-resolution versions of all figures and data visualizations which appear in the printed text.

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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

    This table of contents indicates the full list of essays, and their respective authors, which appear in the book. Summaries of each chapter appear in this digital edition.

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  • List of Tables and Figures

    This list identifies the figures, tables and illustrations which appear in the book and includes links to high-resolution digital versions which appear only in this digital edition.

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  • Chapter summariesChapters 1 - 9 of "Networks of Enlightenment"

    Brief summaries of each of the body chapters which appear in full in the print edition of "Networks of Enlightenment".

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Introduction

  • IntroductionHistorical network analysis and social groups in the Enlightenment

    by Chloe Summers Edmondson, Dan Edelstein

    This is the full text of the Introduction to the book, including associated figures and tables.

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Part 1: Correspondence Networks

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

    by Nicholas Cronk

    Summary of chapter 1

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  • Chapter 2Catherine the Great and the art of epistolary networking

    by Kelsey Rubin-Detlev, Andrew Kahn

    Summary of chapter 2

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

    by Cheryl Smeall

    Summary of chapter 3

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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

    Summary of chapter 4

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Part 2 : Social Networks

  • Chapter 5Julie de Lespinasse and the ‘philosophical’ salon

    by Chloe Summers Edmondson

    Summary of chapter 5

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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

    Summary of chapter 6

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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

    by Mark Algee-Hewitt

    Summary of chapter 9

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Figures, Tables and Images

Resource Collections

  • Introduction

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  • Part 1 : Correspondence Networks

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  • Part 2 : Social Networks

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  • Part 3 : Knowledge Networks

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Single Resources

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    Figure 17- Knowledge networks in Lespinasse’s salon.

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    Table 9- Most distinctive authors in the definitions of adverbs

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    Figure 19- Academy membership in Lespinasse’s network.

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    Figure 33-The number of quotations from named Shakespeare plays in Johnson’s Dictionary (as identified by Johnson).

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    Figure 20- Demographics of d’Holbach’s network based on subset of attendees with a VIAF ID.

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    Figure 35-Network of words in Johnson’s Dictionary with connections limited to authors that are distinctive of parts of speech.

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    Figure 40-'Semiotic' cluster of adverbs and adjectives in part-of-speech network

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    Figure 14-The arms of the Masonic lodge of The Three Compasses in Stettin

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    Figure 21- Lespinasse’s and d’Holbach’s salon networks and the overlap between them visualised as undirected networks in Gephi.

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    Figure 39-'Negative affect' cluster of adverbs and adjectives in part-of-speech network

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    9781786941961
  • publisher
    Liverpool University Press
  • publisher place
    Liverpool
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  • series number
    2019:06
  • series title
    Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment
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