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
List of Tables and Figures
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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".
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.
Introduction
IntroductionHistorical network analysis and social groups in the Enlightenment
by Chloe Summers Edmondson, Dan EdelsteinThis is the full text of the Introduction to the book, including associated figures and tables.
Part 1: Correspondence Networks
Chapter 1Voltaire’s correspondence network: questions of exploration and interpretation
by Nicholas CronkSummary of chapter 1
Chapter 2Catherine the Great and the art of epistolary networking
by Kelsey Rubin-Detlev, Andrew KahnSummary of chapter 2
Chapter 3‘He belonged to Europe’: Francesco Algarotti (1712-1764) and his European networks
by Cheryl SmeallSummary of chapter 3
Chapter 4The networks and the reputation of an ambitious Republican of Letters: Jacques de Pérard (Paris, 1713-Stettin, 1766)
by Pierre-Yves BeaurepaireSummary of chapter 4
Part 2 : Social Networks
Chapter 7Casanova’s French networks: transitioning from a backstage coterie to the beau monde
by Maria Teodora ComsaSummary of chapter 7
Chapter 5Julie de Lespinasse and the ‘philosophical’ salon
by Chloe Summers EdmondsonSummary of chapter 5
Chapter 6‘Un admirateur des philosophes modernes’: the networks of Swedish ambassador Gustav Philip Creutz in Paris, 1766-1783
by Charlotta WolffSummary of chapter 6
Part 3: Knowledge Networks
Chapter 9The principles of meaning: networks of knowledge in Johnson’s Dictionary
by Mark Algee-HewittSummary of chapter 9
Figures, Tables and Images
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Image Figure 17- Knowledge networks in Lespinasse’s salon.
Image Table 9- Most distinctive authors in the definitions of adverbs
Image Figure 19- Academy membership in Lespinasse’s network.
Image Figure 33-The number of quotations from named Shakespeare plays in Johnson’s Dictionary (as identified by Johnson).
Image Figure 20- Demographics of d’Holbach’s network based on subset of attendees with a VIAF ID.
Image Figure 35-Network of words in Johnson’s Dictionary with connections limited to authors that are distinctive of parts of speech.
Image Figure 40-'Semiotic' cluster of adverbs and adjectives in part-of-speech network
Image Figure 14-The arms of the Masonic lodge of The Three Compasses in Stettin
Image Figure 21- Lespinasse’s and d’Holbach’s salon networks and the overlap between them visualised as undirected networks in Gephi.
Image Figure 39-'Negative affect' cluster of adverbs and adjectives in part-of-speech network