Conversable Worlds —— Literature, Contention, and Community 1762 to 1830

----- 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.