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Republic of Letters [ National & Transnational cultures / Reading & Writing ]

… in the seventeenth and eighteenth-century that was comprised of numerous networks throughout Europe and the Americas. Correspondence was the defining feature of its existence, enabling the dissemination of ideas, new literary and … masonic lodges. Concepts > National & Transnational cultures Practices > Reading & Writing Mots-clés Republic of Letters Correspondence networks academies Transnational Community Voltaire The Republic of Letters was both an abstract ideal of … increase in movement and communication can be discerned in particular in the ‘numerical explosion of letters,’ where correspondences which used to number in the dozens or hundreds grow to thousands of letters exchanged ( Edelstein et al. …

Henry Oldenburg (and the Philosophical Transactions) [ Science ]

… Royal Society, of which he was one of the secretaries, and the international social grouping created by his network of correspondence. He used this network to found the Philosophical Transactions , the first periodical devoted entirely to … central to the development of a social scientific international community during this period. People > Science Mots-clés Correspondence Oldenburg Philosophical Transactions Royal Society Scientific community In the late seventeenth century, … He was one of the first secretaries of the Royal Society of London, and he was the centre of a network of scientific correspondence, which was to form the basis of the Philosophical Transactions , the first periodical devoted to science …

Marie Du Deffand [ Art and Literature ]

… of art and literature from all over Britain were known to grace Madame du Deffand’s salon on rue Saint-Dominique.   Her correspondence with Horace Walpole gives us a window into how Franco-British epistolary relationships helped shape new spaces of sociability, both real and imagined. People > Art and Literature Mots-clés Friendship Correspondence Epistolary Letter Salon Horace Walpole Lespinasse Geoffrin Madame du Deffand, née Marie … conversation flowing between friends, the rules of sociability sometimes called for honeyed words. 4 . Horace Walpole’s Correspondence with Madame du Deffand and Wiart, dans Horace Walpole's Correspondence. The Yale Edition of Horace …

Stefan Zanović [ Travel / Art and Literature ]

… a scandal. However, Zanović was also a prolific writer in several languages. This complex and eclectic figure maintained correspondences with acquaintances throughout Europe, often cheating courts and presenting himself under various aliases. … > Travel People > Art and Literature Mots-clés Lord Lincoln Casanova Elizabeth Chudleigh scandal adventurer impostor Correspondence An elegant sociability was the inherent and distinctive trait of Stefan Zanović (1751-1786), 1  writer, … a scandal. However, Zanović was also a prolific writer in several languages. This complex and eclectic figure maintained correspondences with acquaintances throughout Europe, often cheating courts and presenting himself under various aliases. …

Elizabeth (Robinson) Montagu [ Art and Literature ]

… London society. People > Art and Literature Mots-clés Bluestocking Salon Hostess Shakespeare Bulstrode Friendship Correspondence The fourth child of nine surviving siblings, Elizabeth Robinson grew up in a debate-loving, literary … manuscripts left by Montagu and her correspondents , which are currently being edited by the Project Elizabeth Montagu Correspondence Online (EMCO). 6  Most of these letters have not been published before, though a first selection appeared … of her early letters was compiled by Emily Climenson, and in 1923, Reginald Blunt published a selection of her later correspondence. A few more letters have found their way into print, along with an unpublished Dialogue of the Dead, in …