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Author Darnton, Robert.

Title The corpus of clandestine literature in France, 1769-1789 / Robert Darnton.

Publication Info. New York : W.W. Norton, [1995]
©1995

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  PQ265 .D367 1995    Available  ---
Edition 1st ed.
Description 260 pages ; 25 cm
Note Companion volume to the author's The forbidden bestsellers of pre-revolutionary France.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary The world of illegal publishing in eighteenth-century France was large and varied, taking in the greatest works of Voltaire, Rousseau, Montesquieu, and Diderot, as well as the scandalous books of grub street writers. Here we have a map of that world, constructed by Robert Darnton based on his many years of research in the field. Darnton shows us the scope of this literary underground with a complete bibliography of the hundreds of books that circulated "under the cloak." He documents their geographical distribution throughout France, and measures the levels of demand for these books. By ranking these levels of demand he compiles a bestseller list of illegal books, with surprising results. Having thoroughly mined the sources, Darnton provides a trove of information on the illegal literature of Old Regime France. The result is an invaluable resource to specialists in French cultural history, the history of the book, the social history of ideas, and problems of censorship and state control of ideas.
Provenance Gift of Dr. James H. Poivan, Professor of History, Emeritus.
Subject French literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
French literature.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Underground literature -- Publishing -- France -- History -- 18th century.
Underground literature -- Publishing.
France.
History.
Underground literature.
Underground literature -- France -- History and criticism.
Literature publishing -- France -- History -- 18th century.
Literature publishing.
Indexed Term French literature History
ISBN 0393037452
9780393037456