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The Corpus of Clandestine Literature in France, 1769-1789

The Corpus of Clandestine Literature in France, 1769-1789

Darnton, Robert

Paperback

Literary CriticismFrench History

ISBN10: 0393332675
ISBN13: 9780393332674
Publisher: W W Norton & Co
Published: Mar 1 1995
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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