Rumor, diplomacy and war in enlightenment Paris /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ewing, Tabetha Leigh, 1967- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Text in English.
Published: Oxford : Voltaire Foundation, 2014.
Series:Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment ; 2014:07.
Subjects:
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.