The Corpus of Clandestine Literature in France, 1769-1789

(Part of the France and Culture Series)

by Robert Darnton

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0393332675

ISBN13:9780393332674

Release Date:March 1995

Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company

Length:272 Pages

Weight:0.70 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

Book Industry Censorship Criticism & Theory Europe France History History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature & Fiction Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Politics & Government Publishing & Books World Literature

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