Caradonna, Jeremy L.. The Enlightenment in practice : academic prize contests and intellectual culture in France, 1670-1794

Folger bibliographic ID: 264984
Folger call number: DC33.4 .C26 2012
Folger holdings ID: 350624

General notes

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

The rebirth of the concours académique : cultural politics and the domestication of letters in the age of Louis XIV -- À la recherche du concours académique -- The participatory Enlightenment -- Dijon revisited : Rousseau's first discourse from the perspective of the concours académique -- The concours académique, political culture, and the formation of the critical public sphere -- The practical Enlightenment : the concours académique, the state, and the pursuit of expertise -- Prize contests in the revolutionary crucible : decline and regeneration -- Conclusion : the Enlightenment in question

Extended title: The Enlightenment in practice : academic prize contests and intellectual culture in France, 1670-1794 / Jeremy L. Caradonna

France Literature Literary prizes Enlightenment

author: Caradonna, Jeremy L., 1979-