Conversable Worlds: Literature, Contention, and Community 1762 to 1830
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Conversable Worlds addresses the emergence of the idea of 'the conversation of culture'. Around the year 1700 a new commercial society was emerging that thought of its values as the product of exchanges between citizens. Conversation became increasingly important as a model and as a practice for how community could be created. A welter of publications, in periodical essays, in novels, and in poetry, enjoined the virtues of conversation. These publications...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0199591741
ISBN13:9780199591749
Release Date:November 2011
Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
Length:330 Pages
Weight:1.15 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 5.7" x 8.5"
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