The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France
ISBN-13:
9780393314427
ISBN-10:
0393314421
Edition:
3/18/96
Author:
Robert Darnton
Publication date:
1996
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Format:
Paperback
466 pages
Category:
Cultural
,
Anthropology
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ISBN-13:
9780393314427
ISBN-10:
0393314421
Edition:
3/18/96
Author:
Robert Darnton
Publication date:
1996
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Format:
Paperback
466 pages
Category:
Cultural
,
Anthropology
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The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France (ISBN-13: 9780393314427 and ISBN-10: 0393314421), written by authors
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Robert Darnton's work is one of the main reasons that cultural history has become an exciting study central to our understanding of the past.
His latest book vibrates with the strange political and literary energies of ancien régime France. The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France traces the merging of philosophical, sexual, and anti-monarchical interests into the pulp fiction of the 1780s, banned books that make fascinating reading more than two centuries later.French literature of the eighteenth century means to us today Rousseau and Voltaire and the "classic" texts that, we imagine, gave rise to the Revolution. Yet very few of the standard works of the Enlightenment were as widely read as books whose names we have never heard, books that were the currency of a huge literary underground during the reign of Louis XVI. Included in this volume are Darnton's translations of excerpts from three of these works.
After twenty-five years of research, Darnton has summarized his findings in one brilliant work that examines the reciprocal relationship between private literature and the public world, the (illegal) spread of Enlightenment thought, and the interesting possibility that the writings of some not-so-famous authors contributed to the fall of the French aristocracy.
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