Conversable Worlds: Literature, Contention, and Community 1762 to 1830

by Jon Mee

Conversable Worlds addresses the emergence of the idea of 'the conversation of culture'. Around the year 1700 a new commercial society was emerging that thought of its values as the product of exchanges between citizens. Conversation became increasingly important as a model and as a practice for how community could be created. A welter of publications, in periodical essays, in novels, and in poetry, enjoined the virtues of conversation. These publications...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199591741
• ISBN13: 9780199591749
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.5"