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Feb 17, 2017 · ‘One of the most salient results is the participation of writers in the sociability networks of Parisian high society’ (p. 237). Declaring that the salons did not ‘efface social distinctions’, that they were not ‘egalitarian and peaceful places’, is to point out only what those scholars whose work he dismisses (myself among them ...
- Dena Goodman
- 2017
These French salons, which were led by women, did not have a real equivalent in seventeenth century Europe. In England, the revolution of the 1640-1650s disorganized high-society life and favored coffeehouses and spa vacations to the detriment of salons.
Apr 1, 2005 · Kale argues that salons could not survive the emergence of industrial capitalism and democratic politics in the second half of the nineteenth century. They were suited to the noble life of idleness in which family life overlapped with social interaction and the discussion of the day's news.
It challenges the commonly accepted vision of salons as literary circles that were part of the Republic of Letters. It argues, instead, that salons were institutions of worldly sociability, had...
Dec 28, 2015 · It has completely renewed our understanding of one of the most distinctive institutions of pre-Revolutionary cultural life in Paris. Even the name, it seems, is inappropriate: ‘salon’ was a term only coined in the nineteenth-century. Most contemporaries called these gatherings ‘sociétés’.
- William Doyle
- 2016
Feb 9, 2024 · The salon was a notably French cultural event, a private social gathering where a mixture of guests openly discussed art, literature, philosophy, music, and politics. Salons were particularly but not exclusively associated with Paris and were most often hosted by wealthy and well-connected women.
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Dec 1, 2014 · Lilti argues, instead, that salons were institutions of worldly sociability that helped shape "the world" (le monde) and high society. They were essential places where the aristocratic elites...
