----- 蜚声四起:论1762年至1830年的文学争鸣与文学团体
ISBN: 9780199683741 出版年:2012 页码:330 Mee, Jon Oxford University Press
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.