Republic of Letters [ National & Transnational cultures / Reading & Writing ]
… 5 As Edelstein et al. put it, ‘If books and journals were the culminating products of the Republic of Letters, conversation was its lifeblood— and those conversations took place as much in lively social gatherings […] as they did in a form at times tangibly preserved for … of universalism (369). 9 . See in particular Roche, 264-275. While correspondence united the Republic of Letters in conversation across national boundaries, separated by significant distance, state-sponsored academies in Europe provided …
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