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Paperback. Pub Date: 1996 Pages: 464 Publisher: WW Norton & Co What causes revolutions How does public opinion influence events This WORK answers these questions by asking what the French people read in the 18th century The answer lies only partially in the canon of the great Enlightenment philosophers: Voltaire. Diderot. Montesquieu. Rousseau. More popular than these works were other books bought and sold under the cloak. Salacious. blasphemous. often pornographic and treasonous. these formed a libertine literature that undercut all the orthodox values ??of the old regime. This history of these books. and of the booksellers who sold them. presents an idiosyncratic guide to the ancien regime and its citizens. - This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title .
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A gripping portrait of the social, literary, and political dynamics at work in prerevolutionary France.--Michiko Kakutani
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Robert Darnton is the Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor Emeritus and University Librarian Emeritus at Harvard University. His honors include a MacArthur Prize, the National Humanities Medal, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and election to the French Legion of Honor. He is the author of Censors at Work, The Great Cat Massacre, and The Forbidden Bestsellers of Pre-Revolutionary France, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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- PublisherW. W. Norton & Company
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0393314421
- ISBN 13 9780393314427
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages466
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