The French Enlightenment Network

Comsa, Maria Teodora; Conroy, Melanie; Edelstein, Dan; Edmondson, Chloe; Willan, Claude

doi:10.1086/687927

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“…26 In regard to eighteenth century, for example, the Stanford Salon Project is already impressive, particularly in contrast to the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. 27 This is due to the fact that, compared to early modern sources, digitalising material from the modern period lags behind by a large margin, especially in regard to southern and central/eastern Europe. Important initiatives are now beginning to emerge, though.…”

Section: Historiography: Research Methodsmentioning

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How to Approach Salons? A Fin-de-siècle Italian Case Study

Meens

2018

Cultural and Social History

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Many scholars have problematised the meaning that is nowadays attributed to the word salon, even if most of them still use it as a concept to study a specific female type of sociability. The regularity of the meetings, and the mixtures of gender, social groups and nationalities are mostly mentioned as the defining characteristics of a salon. Since these have a quantitative fundament it is surprising that most scholars only use qualitative methods. Analysing the receptions of the Italian countess Ersilia Caetani-Lovatelli, this article shows the value of quantitative research. It helps disproving old historiographical assumptions that are mostly related to the social composition and functioning of the gatherings. It also leads to a plea for using of the alternative concept of private sociability.

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How to Approach Salons? A Fin-de-siècle Italian Case Study

Meens

2018

Cultural and Social History

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Augmenting Network Analysis with Linked Data for Humanities Research

Kreutel

2019

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Voltaire's Correspondence

Cronk

Roe

2020

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Voltaire's correspondence has been described as his 'greatest masterpiece' – but if it is, it is also his least studied. One of the most prodigious correspondences in Western literature, it poses significant interpretative challenges to the critic and reader alike. Considered individually, the letters present a series of complex, subtle, and playful literary performances; taken together, they constitute a formidable, and even forbidding, ensemble. How can modern readers even attempt to understand such an imposing work? This Element addresses this question through the use of digital reading methods and resources that enhance our understanding of this complex literary object and its relationship to Voltaire's more canonical literary output, and indeed to the Enlightenment world at large. Nicholas Cronk and Glenn Roe provide scholars and students with new pathways into this particular corpus, using tools and approaches that can then be applied to correspondences and life-writing texts in all languages and periods.

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The French Enlightenment Network

Cited by 10 publications

References 19 publications

How to Approach Salons? A Fin-de-siècle Italian Case Study

How to Approach Salons? A Fin-de-siècle Italian Case Study

Augmenting Network Analysis with Linked Data for Humanities Research

Voltaire's Correspondence

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