The enlightenment : a comparative social history 1721-1794 /
Thomas Munck.-
- London : Arnold, 2000.
- xii, 249 p.
Includes bibliographical references.
Machine generated contents note: Preface vii -- 1 The enlightenment 1 -- Enlightenment in national context 3 -- Enlightenment and counter-enlightenment 7 -- Nature, man and science 11 -- The ’public sphere’ and its limits 14 -- Enlightenment and political power 18 -- 2 Tradition and communication in daily life 21 -- Popular and elite culture 22 -- Rural interaction and peasant action 26 -- Religious observance and beliefs 29 -- Processions, festivals and the use of open space 37 -- Street life, public entertainment and the theatre 40 -- 3 Broadening the horizon: ways and means 46 -- Literacy 46 -- Education 52 -- Prints, pictures and the eye of the beholder 60 -- Venues of contact, conversation and debate 65 -- Political radicalism in the 1790s 72 -- 4 Books and readers 76 -- Book production and distribution 77 -- Copyright and profits 80 -- Censorship before the reforms 84 -- Changing demand for books 89 -- Libraries and book clubs 98 -- The impact of the book: two case studies 99 -- Pamphlets and politics 103 -- 5 The press 106 -- The Tatler and the Spectator 109 -- The growth of press output and readership 111 -- The French-language press before the Revolution 117 -- The press, enlightenment and change 122 -- Revolutionary media 128 -- 6 Reason and the dissolution of certainties 132 -- State legislation on toleration 133 -- The churches under scrutiny 139 -- Censorship reform and state hesitations 142 -- The judiciary and the law 146 -- Crime and punishment 150 -- Treatment of the sick 156 -- 7 Property, the underprivileged and reform 163 -- Taxation 164 -- Political economy, cameralism and the physiocrats 168 -- Rural reform 172 -- Poverty 181 -- Slavery and enlightenment 186 -- 8 State, nation and individual in the late eighteenth century 193 -- Social structure, ’the people’ and public consensus 194 -- Nation, homeland and patriotic identity 199 -- Political rights and representation in revolutionary France 203 -- Representing the other half: women and public life 211 -- The revolution of popular politics 214 -- 9 Conclusion 220 -- Select bibliography 224 -- Index 240