Conversable worlds [electronic resource] : literature, contention, and community 1762 to 1830 / Jon Mee. Mee, Jon. Conversation in literature. English literature 18th century History and criticism. English literature 19th century History and criticism. Literature and society Great Britain History 18th century. Literature and society Great Britain History 19th century. PR408.C63 820.9355 23 Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record. Around 1700 a new commercial society was emerging that thought of its values as the product of exchanges between citizens. A welter of publications-periodical essays, novels, and poetry-enjoined the virtues of conversation and were discussed in book clubs and literary societies, creating their own conversable worlds. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011. 2011. 2011 Text 1 online resource (xiv, 315 p.) : http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199591749.001.0001 eng Great Britain Great Britain