18 March 2022
Keynote lecture by Ann Thomson now available: Expressing Opinions in the Early 18th-Century Republic of Letters
The keynote lecture by Ann Thomson is from our PRIVACY conference in 2021 and has been paraphrased by PRIVACY Postdoctoral Researcher Frank Ejby Poulsen
Introduction and definitions
The focus of this paper is on how questions of the private appear in private correspondence and with regards to people’s behaviour in said correspondence. The empirical material used in the study consists of a selection of letters written by scholars (broadly defined - faculty members at universities, but also journalists, translators, publishers, writers, etc.) in the Republic of Letters.