Books written by Robert Darnton
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The Meaning of the Library: A Cultural History
Jon Purcell was director of Library Services at St. Andrews in 2009, when the book and lecture series were first suggested, and most generously provided library funds to launch the project. Deputy director Jeremy Upton and John MacColl, ...
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George Washington's False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century
... 67 , 18 in Charlemagne , king of the Franks , 76 Charles III , king of Spain , 10-11 Charles V , Holy Roman emperor ... 147-50 , 153-55,171 as Finance Minister , 139 , 172 as Gallo - American , 127–29 , 150 , 157 Clavière , J.-J.
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Revolution in Print: The Press in France, 1775-1800
Explains the role of printing in the French Revolution and the establishment of the revolutionary government
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Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France
Robert Darnton's lively study provides a useful contribution to the study of popular culture and the manner in which ideas are diffused down through various social levels.
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The Business of Enlightenment: a publishing history of the Encyclopédie, 1775-1800
This is cultural history on a broad scale, a history of the process of civilization.
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What was Revolutionary about the French Revolution?
Darnton offers a reasoned defense of what the French revolutionaries were trying to achieve and urges us to look beyond political events to understand the idealism and universality of their...
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The Corpus of Clandestine Literature in France, 1769-1789
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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The Forbidden Best-sellers of Pre-revolutionary France
HOW DOES PUBLIC OPINION INFLUENCE EVENTS? THIS BOOK IS MEANT TO ADDRESS THOSE QUESTIONS BY BEGINNING WITH A QUERY OF A DIFFERENT ORDER, ONE THAT CAN BE ANSWEreD: WHAT DID THE FRENCH READ IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY?
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法国大革命前的畅销禁书
本书研究了法国旧制度对文化,写作,图书出版的控制以及禁书如何在控制下的出售.作者探索了这些所谓不好的书的文化与政治意义,同时介绍了三种影响极深的销售最好的禁书及其读者.书中作者把目光转向了出版和阅读的历史,通过对审查体制的考察来研究旧制度,并表明18世纪后半叶法国的色情,哲学和政治之间的关联.
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旧制度时期的地下文学
本书不仅描述了18世纪的出版史,而且揭示了文学世界的底层公民对旧制度的崩溃所做的贡献.具体内容包括:格拉布街的密探,逃亡中的小册子作者,外省的地下书商,边境对面的印刷所等.
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The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future
This book is a wise work of scholarship -- one that requires readers to carefully consider how the digital revolution will broadly affect the marketplace of ideas.
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The Kiss of Lamourette: Reflections in Cultural History
This is a book about history, the media, and the history of the media.In four parts this book will go through how the past operates as an undercurrent in the present, analyze the operation of the media by specific case studies, outline a ...
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The Great Cat Massacre: And Other Episodes in French Cultural History
These are some of the provocative questions the distinguished Harvard historian Robert Darnton answers The Great Cat Massacre, a kaleidoscopic view of European culture during in what we like to call "The Age of Enlightenment.
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A Literary Tour de France: The World of Books on the Eve of the French Revolution
Focusing in particular on the diary of Jean-François Favarger, a traveling sales rep for a Swiss firm whose 1778 voyage, on horseback and on foot, around France to visit bookstores and renew accounts forms the spine of this story, Darnton ...
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The Literary Underground of the Old Regime
Examines the eighteenth-century French writers, publishers, and booksellers, who avoided official censorship, influenced public opinion, and affected the development of the French Revolution
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Pirating and Publishing: The Book Trade in the Age of Enlightenment
The story of how book piracy in pre-Revolutionary France expanded the reach of the works that would inspire momentous change.
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Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature
"Splendid…[Darnton gives] us vivid, hard-won detail, illuminating narrative, and subtle, original insight." —Timothy Garton Ash, New York Review of Books With his uncanny ability to spark life in the past, Robert Darnton re-creates ...
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Pirating and Publishing: The Book Trade in the Age of Enlightenment
In the late-18th century, a group of publishers in what historian Robert Darnton calls the "Fertile Crescent" DL countries located along the French border, stretching from Holland to Switzerland DL pirated the works of prominent (and often ...
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The Devil in the Holy Water, or the Art of Slander from Louis XIV to Napoleon
Part detective story, part revolutionary history, The Devil in the Holy Water has much to tell us about the nature of authorship and the book trade, about Grub Street journalism and the shaping of public opinion, and about the important ...
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Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France
... des procédés qui peuvent développer ou accroître l'énergie de cette loi est l'objet de l'art de préserver et de guérir ou de la médecine; de même aussi connaître la loi morale universelle d'après laquelle est produite l'harmonie des ...