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The Kiss of Lamourette: Reflections in Cultural History
At home in the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries, Robert Darnton is a shrewd and entertaining guide to the shifting borderlands of history and culture. These wide-ranging essays appear under various headings: "Current Events" --this section includes the wonderful story of the moment in 1792 when all the delegates in the French Legislative Assembly kissed each other; "Media," on television, pounding a newspaper beat, and tips to academics on how to get a book published; "The Printed Word," with an essay on the history of books; "The Lay of the Land," on aspects of intellectual history; and "Good Neighbors," on the relation of history to literature anthropology, and the sociology of knowledge.
Book Details
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Publish Date: Aug 17th, 1991
- Pages: 416
- Language: English
- Edition: Revised - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.01in - 5.08in - 1.05in - 0.80lb
- EAN: 9780393307528
- Categories: • World - General• Europe - France• Modern - 20th Century - General
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.