Salons [ Associational culture ]
… of the social elite. (DeJean 383) 4 . Angus Fletcher, Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2021), p. 108-109; Anne-Marie Feat, ‘Playing the Game of Frivolity: … the salons as egalitarian and democratic milieus where individuals first learned to exercise their reason to critique literature and art, followed by the critique of politics . 17 To others, the salons were feminist spaces governed by … day, with individuals dubbing various gatherings of any sort a ‘salon’, if the group of invités bears an interest in literature or the world of ideas. 20 . See Charlotta Wolff, ‘“Un admirateur des philosophes modernes”: the networks of …
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