Secrets Et Surveillance Ã(c)Pistolaires Dans l'Europe Du Dix-Huitième Siècle

In a century marked by innumerable armed conflicts and incessant theological quarrels, including tensions between the Church, the State and the Philosophes, literary correspondence provides a privileged site via which to examine the mechanisms of surveillance. Epistolary communication was at the heart of daily life among the eighteenth-century literati. Familiar with methods of surveillance, the Enlightenment elite often amused themselves by sending...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1802078770
• ISBN13: 9781802078770
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Voltaire Foundation in Association with Liver
• Length: 208 Pages