Calvet's Web: Enlightenment and the Republic of Letters in Eighteenth-Century France

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Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: Broadway; 1 edition (August 15, 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0767900499
ISBN-13: 978-0767900492
Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces

"LWB Brockliss's study of Esprit-Claude-Francois Calvet (1728-1810), Calvet's Web: Enlightenment and the Republic of Letters in Eighteenth-Century France, presents a very good picture of the life of a medical doctor and scholar. Brockliss's study is the result of extensive work in the archives that contain many details of Calvet's life and collections..."-- HISTORY: Reviews of New Books

"The book differs from most studies of the Enlightenment in that its center is not the Paris salon and the philosophes who frequented it, but decentralized, epistolary community of stolid, upwardly mobile provincial scholars."--Choice

Product Description Calvet's Web is a study of the correspondence network of an Avignon physician in the period 1750-1810. Esprit Calvet was an antiquarian, natural historian, and bibliophile, and was at the centre of a circle of like-minded intellectuals from various backgrounds, chiefly based in the Rhone valley. Laurence Brockliss explores for the first time an important contribution to our understanding of the social construction of knowledge, and offers a new picture of the relationship between the Republic of Letters and the Enlightenment. Calvet's Web: Enlightenment and the Republic of Letters in Eighteenth-Century France