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Cookie akzeptierenRobert Darnton
The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France
- W. W. Norton & Company
- 1996
- Taschenbuch
- 466 Seiten
- ISBN 9780393314427
His latest book vibrates with the strange political and literary energies of ancien régime France. The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France traces the merging of philosophical, sexual, and anti-monarchical interests into the pulp fiction of the 1780s, banned books that make fascinating reading more than two centuries later. French literature of the eighteenth century means to us today Rousseau and Voltaire and the "classic" texts that, we imagine, gave rise to the Revolution. Yet very few of the standard works of the Enlightenment were as widely read as books whose names we have never heard, books that were the currency of a huge literary underground during
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