Poetry and the police : communication networks in eighteenth-century Paris /
Darnton, Robert.
Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Policing a poem -- A conundrum -- A communication network -- Ideological danger? -- Court politics -- Crime and punishment -- A missing dimension -- The larger context -- Poetry and politics -- Song -- Music -- Chansonniers -- Reception -- A diagnosis -- Public opinion -- The songs and poems distributed by the Fourteen -- Texts of "Qu'une batarde de catin" -- Poetry and the fall of Maurepas -- The trail of the Fourteen -- The popularity of tunes -- An electronic cabaret : Paris street songs, 1748-1750.
Political culture
Communication in politics
Information networks
Political poetry, French
Street music
Police
Political activists