Conversable Worlds
Subtitle: Literature, Contention, and Community 1762 to 1830
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Nov 10, 2011
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780199591749
Description: Around 1700 a new commercial society was emerging that thought of its values as the product of exchanges between citizens. A welter of publications-periodical essays, novels, and poetry-enjoined the virtues of conversation and were discussed in book clubs and literary societies, creating their own conversable worlds.
Notes: Source title: Conversable Worlds: Literature, Contention, and Community 1762 to 1830