Conversable Worlds

Author	: Jon Mee
Publisher	: OUP Oxford
Total Pages	: 330
Release	: 2011-09-15
ISBN-10	: 9780199591749
ISBN-13	: 0199591741
Rating	: 4/5 (49 Downloads)

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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.

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