How Long to Read Letters to the Editor in Eighteenth-century France

How Long Does it Take to Read Letters to the Editor in Eighteenth-century France?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 44 minutes to read Letters to the Editor in Eighteenth-century France by Elizabeth Andrews Bond

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Description

My dissertation presents a new approach to the history of the Enlightenment: the examination of letters to the editor published in French newspapers at the end of the eighteenth century. This rich, and previously overlooked source, allows me to explore one of the most difficult problems in cultural history: how the literate population understood and responded to the intellectual debates of their age. My dissertation is designed to render a more nuanced understanding of how the eighteenth-century French public understood the important ideas of their day. Informed by theoretical studies of public opinion formation and networks analysis, my work examines the structures through which readers consumed, debated, and transmitted information before and during the Revolution. I argue that the existence and impact of information networks, like letters to the editor, were at least as important to the spread and impact of the Enlightenment as were the specific publications of writers such as Voltaire, Montesquieu, and Rousseau. Thus, the Enlightenment should be understood not as a canon of philosophical and political ideas, but as a new psychology and epistemology, a spirit of optimism about the human capacity to know the world and change society.

How long is Letters to the Editor in Eighteenth-century France?

Letters to the Editor in Eighteenth-century France by Elizabeth Andrews Bond is 277 pages long, and a total of 71,189 words.

This makes it 93% the length of the average book. It also has 87% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Letters to the Editor in Eighteenth-century France Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 29 minutes to read Letters to the Editor in Eighteenth-century France aloud.

What Reading Level is Letters to the Editor in Eighteenth-century France?

Letters to the Editor in Eighteenth-century France is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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