Enlightenment at court : patrons, philosophes, and reformers in eighteenth-century Europe

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Enlightenment at court : patrons, philosophes, and reformers in eighteenth-century Europe

edited by Thomas Biskup ... [et al.]

(Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment, 2022:08)

Liverpool University Press on behalf of Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford, c2022

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-356) and index

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Description

This is the first comprehensive analysis of the royal and princely courts of Europe as important places of Enlightenment. The households of European rulers remained central to politics and culture throughout the eighteenth century, and few writers, artists, musicians, or scholars could succeed without establishing connections to ruling houses, noble families, or powerful courtiers. Covering case studies from Spain and France to Russia, and from Scandinavia and Britain to the Holy Roman Empire, the contributions of this volume examine how Enlightenment figures were integrated into the princely courts of the Ancien Regime, and what kinds of relationships they had with courtiers. Dangers and opportunities presented by proximity to court are discussed as well as the question of what rulers and courtiers gained from their interactions with Enlightenment men and women of letters. The book focusses on four areas: firstly, the impact of courtly patronage on Enlightenment discourses and the work as well as careers of Enlightenment writers; secondly, the court as an audience to be catered for by Enlightenment writers; thirdly, the function of Enlightenment narratives and discourses for the image-making of rulers and courtiers; and fourthly, the role the interaction of courtiers and Enlightenment writers played for the formulation of reform policies.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Court and Enlightenment Thomas Biskup, Benjamin Marschke, Andreas Pecar, Damien Tricoire Part one: Courtly Patronage Diderot the Courtier? Philosophers and the World of the Court in Enlightenment Europe Andreas Pecar & Damien Tricoire Celebrity, Status, and Gender at the late Hanoverian Court: The Careers of Charles Burney (1726-1814) and Frances Burney (1752-1840) Clarissa Campbell Orr Part two: Public sphere "Hey France, Your Coffee is F***ing Off!" or How to interpret Unauthorized Literature in Late Ancien Regime France? Courtly Patronage and the So-Called "Mairobert corpus" (1774-1777) Damien Tricoire Music, Taste, and Enlightenment Discourse at the Prussian Court. The Marpurg-Agricola Controversy over the Relative Merits of the French and Italian Styles Tal Soker Part three: Self-representation What Makes Enlightenment Princes Enlightened? The Representation of Franz of Anhalt-Dessau and Frederick August of Anhalt-Zerbst Paul Beckus Enlightenment in Courtly Garden Art-Enlightenment Ideas and Anti-Court Sociability in the Sanspareil Rock Garden of Wilhelmine of Bayreuth Luise Maslow Clemency in the Boudoir. Favoritism and Imperial Virtues at the Russian Court (1740s-1790s) Alexei Evstratov Fraternal Kingdom? Freemasonry at the Court of Gustav III of Sweden (1772-1792) Andreas OEnnerfors Part four: Projects and reforms Sovereignty and the Politics of Knowledge. Royal Society, Leibniz, Wolff, and Peter the Great's Academy of Sciences Kirill Ospovat Continuity and Change in Courtly and Enlightenment Discourse on Education in Spain. Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos and the Moral Regeneration of the Nobility Gijs Versteegen The King is Dead-Long Live the Enlightenment? Viennese Court Culture, Networks, and Enlightened Reforms in Periods of Transition (1765-1795) Simon Karstens Bibliography Index

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