Republic of Letters [ National & Transnational cultures / Reading & Writing ]
… de la République des Lettres, 1684 Image Jean Huber, 'Un dîner de philosophes', Voltaire Fondation, 1772. Résumé The Republic of Letters was an abstract intellectual community in the seventeenth and eighteenth-century that was comprised of … literary and philosophical manuscripts, and political news and pamphlets. But the erudite epistolary backbone of the Republic of Letters was also enriched by networks grounded in institutions. These included scholarly networks created by … Republic of Letters were erudite male scholars writing to one another in Latin to communicate ideas, influence public opinion, and signal their identity as intellectuals. This notion of a scholarly community in communication, created by …
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