Rumor, diplomacy and war in enlightenment Paris /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Text in English. |
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Oxford :
Voltaire Foundation,
2014.
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| Series: | Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment ;
2014:07. |
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Table of Contents:
- Transcriptions : royal secrecy in the channels of "on-dits"
- Electing the emperor : problems of voice
- Purloined letters and the 1742 crisis of information
- Protesting the draft : popular opinion, chance, and royal justice
- Declaring love, declaring war
- A royal public : trumpeting the king's triumph after Fontenoy
- Disloyal speech and war on other fronts
- Uncovering political public opinion and an abstract public
- Gender as a poetics of indirection : a shopkeeper's wife negotiates for peace
- Inchoate citizenship.