The forbidden best-sellers of pre-revolutionary France

著者

• Darnton, Robert

書誌事項

The forbidden best-sellers of pre-revolutionary France

Robert Darnton

Fontana Press, 1997, c1996

注記

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BC08474539
• ISBN:
  • 0002558351
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: London
• ページ数/冊数: xxiii, 440 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • DC20 : 840.9005
  • DC : 840.9
• 件名:
  • LCSH : French literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Underground literature -- France -- 18th century -- History and criticism