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The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France
Winner:National Book Critics Circle Award -Criticism (1995)
More popular than the canon of the great Enlightenment philosophes were other books, also banned by the regime, written and sold "under the cloak." These formed a libertine literature that was a crucial part of the culture of dissent in the Old Regime. Robert Darnton explores the cultural and political significance of these "bad" books and introduces readers to three of the most influential illegal best-sellers, from which he includes substantial excerpts.
Book Details
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Publish Date: Apr 1st, 1996
- Pages: 466
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.40in - 5.40in - 1.20in - 1.20lb
- EAN: 9780393314427
- Categories: • European - French• Europe - France
About the Author
Darnton, Robert: - Robert Darnton is the author of many award-winning works in French cultural history, and taught for years at Princeton and Harvard. He is a chevalier in the Légion d'Honneur, and winner of the National Humanities Medal.
Praise for this book
A gripping portrait of the social, literary, and political dynamics at work in prerevolutionary France.--Michiko Kakutani "New York Times"