Abstract
Ideas and information were the social currency of the expanding public sphere of eighteenth-century Britain, and by the Romantic period the production and consumption of knowledge in the form of public lecturing testified to an economic and emotional investment in knowledge of all kinds, as well as in knowledge per se.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | New Pilgrimages: Selected Papers from the IAUPE Beijing Conference in 2013 |
| Editors | Li Cao and Li Jin |
| Place of Publication | Beijing |
| Publisher | Tsinghua University Press |
| Pages | 147-164 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Edition | 1st |
| ISBN (Print) | 9787302385691 |
| Publication status | Published - 2015 |