TY - BOOK AU - Bond,Elizabeth Andrews ED - Project Muse. TI - The Writing Public : : Participatory Knowledge Production in Enlightenment and Revolutionary France / SN - 9781501753572 PY - 2021/// CY - Ithaca, [New York] PB - Cornell University Press KW - Social conditions KW - fast KW - Mass media and public opinion KW - Letters to the editor KW - Intellectual life KW - France KW - History KW - 18th century KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - The production and distribution of the information press -- The writers, self-presentation, and subjectivity -- Reading together, book references and reading practices -- Popular science and public participation -- Agricultural reform and local innovation -- Bienfaisance, fellow-feeling, and the public good -- Communicating the revolution; Open Access N2 - "In the letters to the editor published in French newspapers from 1770 to 1791, thousands of writers received and responded to prevailing ideas of their day. This book situates overlooked voices at the center of the Enlightenment, shedding light on the social and material contexts in which knowledge was produced"-- UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/83167/ ER -