Contents

List of figures and tables

dan edelstein and chloe summers edmondson, Introduction: historical network analysis and social groups in the Enlightenment

I. Correspondence networks

nicholas cronk, Voltaire’s correspondence network: questions of exploration and interpretation

kelsey rubin-detlev and andrew kahn, Catherine the Great and the art of epistolary networking

cheryl smeall, ‘He belonged to Europe’: Francesco Algarotti (1712-1764) and his European networks

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

II. Social networks

chloe summers edmondson, Julie de Lespinasse and the ‘philosophical’ salon

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

maria teodora comsa, Casanova’s French networks: transitioning from a backstage coterie to the beau monde

III. Knowledge networks

melanie conroy, The eighteenth-century French academic network

mark algee-hewitt, The principles of meaning: networks of knowledge in Johnson’s Dictionary

Summaries

Bibliography

Index