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Infrastructures of enlightenment : road-making, the public sphere, and the emergence of literature

Author
Laugero, Greg
Document type
Article (journal)
Language
English
Source
Eighteenth-century studies. 1995, Num. 1, Vol. 29, 45-67, 2 maps
ISSN
0013-2586
Abstract (en)
Between 1750 and 1770, the landscape of England was transformed by the building and improving of roads on an unprecedented scale. The result was simultaneously an apparent fragmentation - a landscape literally divided by administrative units called turnpike trusts - and a new unification - the linking together of parts into a new national whole. Laugero examines this material and conceptual event of "unification" through "fragmentation" in relation to the making of roads and the emergence of literature ca.1750-1830. His argument is that the arrangement of those parts and wholes was not only geographical: the circulation of individuals, commodities and information through new channels of communication and exchange, particularly the literary, brought about new kinds of individuals for a new kind of society.
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DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19960401-00284811

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