Patrons of Enlightenment / / Edward Andrew.
All major writers of the Enlightenment enjoyed royal or aristocratic patronage, often denying their financial dependency and claiming to live by the labours of their pens or by the expanding readership of the eighteenth century, thereby maintaining the ideal of intellectual autonomy.In Patrons of En...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2006 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Patronage of Philosophy
- 2. Enlightenment and Print Culture
- 3. Seneca in the Age of Frederick and Catherine
- 4. Patronage and the Modes of Liberal Tolerance: Bayle, Care, and Locke
- 5. Voltaire and His Female Protectors
- 6. Scottish Universities and Their Patrons: Argyll, Bute, and Dundas
- 7. Independence in Theory and Practice: D'Alembert and Rousseau
- 8. Samuel Johnson and the Question of Enlightenment in England
- 9. Irish Antagonists: Burke and Shelburne
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index