Impolite Learning: Conduct and Community in the Republic of Letters, 1680-1750 by Anne Goldgar

Impolite Learning: Conduct and Community in the Republic of Letters, 1680-1750

Anne Goldgar

412 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

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A portrait of a social and cultural community in which scholars were bound by a host of unwritten codes, highlighting the importance of social interaction for the intellectual world in the period immediately preceding the Enlightenment.

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