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Essay competitions in the long eighteenth century : writing to win the prize /

Eighteenth-century essay competitions epitomized the tensions and contradictions that characterized the Enlightenment in general, and especially its media of communication and venues of sociability. This book is the first to provide a preliminary, and necessarily incomplete, overview of this phenome...

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Main Authors: Urmann, Martin (Author, Editor), Dixhoorn, Arjan van (Author), Seguin, Maria Susana (Author), Gierl, Martin (Author), Rubin-Detlev, Kelsey (Author), Kapossy, Bela, 1965- (Author), Szymański, Radosław (Author), Roupas, Georgios (Author), Perras, Jean-Alexandre (Author), Chiosi, Elvira (Author), Matarazzo, Pasquale (Author), Engelhardt, Juliane (Author)
Other Authors: Lifschitz, Avi, 1975- (Editor), Betholet, Auguste, Miller, Nicola (author. $)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK : Published by Liverpool University Press on behalf of Voltaire Foundation, [2026].
Series:Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment ; 2026:05.
Subjects:
Contests > History > 19th century.
Essay > History and criticism.
Essay > Authorship > Competitions > History.
Europe > Intellectual life > 18th century.

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