Poetry and the police
Subtitle: communication networks in eighteenth-century Paris
By: Robert Darnton
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780674057159
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Policing a poem; title: A conundrum; title: A communication network; title: Ideological danger?; title: Court politics; title: Crime and punishment; title: A missing dimension; title: The larger context; title: Poetry and politics; title: Song; title: Music; title: Chansonniers; title: Reception; title: A diagnosis; title: Public opinion; title: Songs, poems, and documents; title: The songs and poems distributed by the Fourteen; title: Texts of "Qu'une batarde de catin"; title: Poetry and the fall of Maurepas; title: The trail of the Fourteen; title: The popularity of tunes; title: An electronic cabaret : Paris street songs, 1748-1750.