The Emancipation of Writing, German Civil Society in the Making, 1790s-1820s

Abstract

Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction PART I OFFICIAL POWER AND THE PAPER TRAIL Chapter 1 The civic landscape Political culture Social geography Mediating institutions Chapter 2 The tutelage of the scribes The formality of daily life Manipulations of authority Crisis in the writing trades Chapter 3 The Black Forest Cahier Political ventriloquism Networks of collegiality Provincials and cosmopolitans A breach of protocol Chapter 4 Constitutional fetishism Litigating local conflict Democratization by codification Heinrich Bolley v. the king Epilogue PART II INSCRIBING A SPACE OF FREEDOM Chapter 5 Transcending textual serfdom Administrative colonization Tutelage on a new terrain The reconstitution of politics Chapter 6 Reading, writing, and reform Edicts: the letter of the law Sociography and enforcement Knowledge entrepreneurs Chapter 7 Cataloging the social world Statistical topography Patriotic science Encyclopedism as local passion Chapter 8 The intelligence gazettes Popular Enlightenment Reaching the citizenry The market for information Conclusion Abbreviations Glossary Sources Notes

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