World of the Salons - Sociability and Worldliness in Eighteenth-Century Paris

The World of the Salons is a revisionist study of the French salon of the eighteenth century, arguing that it was a place governed by social hierarchy, not equality, connected to the world of the Court, and not the fount of the Enlightenment as has traditionally been believed.

List of contents

• Acknowledgments


• Introduction


• Part I: From the Salon to the World: Sociability and Distinction


• Chapter 1: Sociability and Hospitality


• Chapter 2: The Worldly Sphere


• Chapter 3: Men of Letters and Worldliness


• Part II: News and Opinion: The Politics of High Society


• Chapter 4: Word Games: Literature and Sociability


• Chapter 5: Society's Judgment and Worldly Opinion


• Chapter 6: Politics in the Salon


• Conclusion


• Appendix


• Notes


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Antoine Lilti teaches social and cultural history at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and is former editor of the Annales journal. He is the author of The Invention of Celebrity.

Summary

The World of the Salons is a revisionist study of the French salon of the eighteenth century, arguing that it was a place governed by social hierarchy, not equality, connected to the world of the Court, and not the fount of the Enlightenment as has traditionally been believed.

Additional text

Antoine Lilti's Le Monde des salons is the most thorough and important study of eighteenth-century French salons to date. Methodologically sophisticated, it distinguishes between how contemporaries talked about salons and what actually took place in them. In doing so, it explodes several myths. First, it puts the lie to recent interpretations that have depicted salons as crucibles of modern egalitarianism

Product details

• Authors: Antoine (Professor of History Lilti, Lilti Antoine
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.09.2020
• EAN: 9780197533604
• ISBN: 978-0-19-753360-4
• No. of pages: 344
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, France, European History, 20th Century, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / Europe / France, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Europe / Austria & Hungary, General & world history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Social and cultural history, Empires & historical states, General and world history, C 1700 To C 1800, Austro-Hungarian Empire