Calvet's Web
Enlightenment and the Republic of Letters in Eighteenth-Century France
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 4 July 2002
- ISBN 9780199247486
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages506 pages
- Size 241x164x31 mm
- Weight 911 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 11 maps, 7 figures, 20 halftones, frontispiece 0
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Short description:
Calvet's Web is a study of a circle of French antiquarians, naturalists, and bibliophiles in the period 1750-1810. By using the surviving correspondence of its members, Laurence Brockliss assembles a vivid picture of the French Republic of Letters in an era of rapid change, showing how the world of scholarship relates to the movement historians call the Enlightenment and how it is torn apart, then reconstructed, in the social and political turmoil of the French Revolution.
MoreLong description:
Calvet's Web is a study of the correspondence network of an Avignon physician in the period 1750-1810. Esprit Calvet was an antiquarian, natural historian, and bibliophile, and was at the centre of a circle of like-minded intellectuals from various backgrounds, chiefly based in the Rhone valley. Laurence Brockliss explores for the first time in detail the intellectual interests and relationships of a representative sample of the French Republic of Letters. He traces the destruction of the Republic during the Revolution, and its reconstruction, in different guise, under Napoleon.
Calvet's Web is an important contribution to our understanding of the social construction of knowledge, the history of collecting, and the history of the book. In addition, by examining the circle's attitude to the philosophes and their programme of material and moral progress, it offers a new picture of the relationship between the Republic of Letters and the Enlightenment.
Recommended.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Republic of Letters and Enlightenment
Esprit Calvet
The intellectual milieu
The physician
The antiquarian
The natural historian
The bibliophile
The revolutionary climacteric
Conclusion: Enlightenment and Republic of Letters
