Salons [ Associational culture ]
… which included most major writers of the time. Scholars claim this regular meeting of individuals, with an array of opinions and ideas, contributed to the development of a collective literary taste and the practice of informal literary … ‘ 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. …
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