The Rise of the Public in Enlightenment Europe

by James Van Horn Melton

Book Overview

James Melton's accessible study examines the rise of the public in eighteenth-century Europe. Focusing on England, France, and the German-speaking territories, this is the first critical reassessment of what the philosopher J?rgen Habermas called the bourgeois public sphere of the eighteenth century. Topics include the growing importance of public opinion in political life, transformations of the literary public realm, eighteenth-century authorship,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521469694
• ISBN13: 9780521469692
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"