Enlightenment at court : Patrons, philosophes, and reformers in eighteenth-century Europe (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment)

Biskup, Thomas (EDT)/ Marschke, Benjamin (EDT)/ Pečar, Andreas (EDT)

Voltaire Foundation（2022/08発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 384 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781800855076
• DDC分類 190.9033

Full Description

This is the first comprehensive analysis of the royal and princely courts of Europe as important places of Enlightenment. The households of European rulers remained central to politics and culture throughout the eighteenth century, and few writers, artists, musicians, or scholars could succeed without establishing connections to ruling houses, noble families, or powerful courtiers. 

Covering case studies from Spain and France to Russia, and from Scandinavia and Britain to the Holy Roman Empire, the contributions of this volume examine how Enlightenment figures were integrated into the princely courts of the Ancien Régime, and what kinds of relationships they had with courtiers. Dangers and opportunities presented by proximity to court are discussed as well as the question of what rulers and courtiers gained from their interactions with Enlightenment men and women of letters. The book focusses on four areas: firstly, the impact of courtly patronage on Enlightenment discourses and the work as well as careers of Enlightenment writers; secondly, the court as an audience to be catered for by Enlightenment writers; thirdly, the function of Enlightenment narratives and discourses for the image-making of rulers and courtiers; and fourthly, the role the interaction of courtiers and Enlightenment writers played for the formulation of reform policies.

Contents

List of illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Court and Enlightenment

Thomas Biskup, Benjamin Marschke, Andreas Pečar, Damien Tricoire

 

Part one: Courtly Patronage

Diderot the Courtier? Philosophers and the World of the Court in Enlightenment Europe

Andreas Pečar & Damien Tricoire

 

Celebrity, Status, and Gender at the late Hanoverian Court:  The Careers of Charles Burney (1726-1814) and Frances Burney (1752-1840)

Clarissa Campbell Orr

 

Part two: Public sphere

"Hey France, Your Coffee is F***ing Off!" or How to interpret Unauthorized Literature in Late Ancien Régime France? Courtly Patronage and the So-Called "Mairobert corpus" (1774-1777)

Damien Tricoire

 

Music, Taste, and Enlightenment Discourse at the Prussian Court. The Marpurg-Agricola Controversy over the Relative Merits of the French and Italian Styles

Tal Soker

Part three: Self-representation

What Makes Enlightenment Princes Enlightened? The Representation of Franz of Anhalt-Dessau and Frederick August of Anhalt-Zerbst

Paul Beckus

 

Enlightenment in Courtly Garden Art—Enlightenment Ideas and Anti-Court Sociability in the Sanspareil Rock Garden of Wilhelmine of Bayreuth

Luise Maslow

 

Clemency in the Boudoir. Favoritism and Imperial Virtues at the Russian Court (1740s-1790s)

Alexei Evstratov

 

Fraternal Kingdom? Freemasonry at the Court of Gustav III of Sweden (1772-1792)

Andreas Önnerfors

 

Part four: Projects and reforms

Sovereignty and the Politics of Knowledge. Royal Society, Leibniz, Wolff, and Peter the Great's Academy of Sciences

Kirill Ospovat

 

Continuity and Change in Courtly and Enlightenment Discourse on Education in Spain. Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos and the Moral Regeneration of the Nobility

Gijs Versteegen

 

The King is Dead—Long Live the Enlightenment? Viennese Court Culture, Networks, and Enlightened Reforms in Periods of Transition (1765-1795)

Simon Karstens

 

Bibliography

Index