Salons [ Associational culture ]
… ‘ Salonnières played the role of cultural mediators and brokers between artists and writers, on the one hand, and the public of wealthy amateurs and government officials who controlled the state-sponsored institutions of letters’. 11 … salon’, in Chloe Edmondson and Dan Edelstein (eds.) Networks of Enlightenment: Digital Approaches to the Republic of Letters (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2019), p. 139. … amongst scholarly debates following Jürgen Habermas’ influential work The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere , which highlighted the importance of institutions of sociability – and the salons in particular – for the birth …
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