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… meeting of individuals, with an array of opinions and ideas, contributed to the development of a collective literary taste and the practice of informal literary criticism. Guests would exchange ideas and comment on the new works that … Raynal, Meister, etc., (ed.) Maurice Tourneux, vol.11 (Paris, 1879), p. 264. 11 . Elena Russo, Styles of Enlightenment: Taste, Politics, and Authorship in Eighteenth-Century France (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 2007), p. 63. The women …
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