Republic of Letters [ National & Transnational cultures / Reading & Writing ]
… de la République des Lettres, 1684 Image Jean Huber, 'Un dîner de philosophes', Voltaire Fondation, 1772. Abstract The Republic of Letters was an abstract intellectual community in the seventeenth and eighteenth-century that was comprised of … literary and philosophical manuscripts, and political news and pamphlets. But the erudite epistolary backbone of the Republic of Letters was also enriched by networks grounded in institutions. These included scholarly networks created by … cultures Practices > Reading & Writing Keywords Academies Censorship Community Correspondence Cosmopolitanism Networks Republic of Letters The Republic of Letters was both an abstract ideal of a cosmopolitan, egalitarian community of …
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