Conversable Worlds
Author | : Jon Mee |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2011-09-15 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780199591749 |
ISBN-10 | : 0199591741 |
Rating | : 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Conversable Worlds by : Jon Mee
Download or read book Conversable Worlds written by Jon Mee and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around 1700 a new commercial society was emerging that thought of its values as the product of exchanges between citizens. A welter of publications-periodical essays, novels, and poetry-enjoined the virtues of conversation and were enthusiastically discussed in book clubs and literary societies, creating their own conversable worlds.