The Darnton debate
Subtitle: books and revolution in the eighteenth century
By: edited by Haydn T. Mason.
Contributors: Mason, Haydn Trevor.; Voltaire Foundation.
Series: Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century,
Publisher: Voltaire Foundation
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 305
Subjects: Darnton, Robert.; French literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.; Publishers and publishing -- France -- History -- 18th century.; Enlightenment -- France; France -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.; France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799.
Notes: Text includes articles in English and French.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Trading places? England 1689 - France 1789 / D.F. McKenzie; title: Le savant, le chat et le cataplasme / Roland Mortier; title: Le rendez-vous manqué de Bougainville: du voyage au livre / François Moureau; title: French women in print, 1750-1800: an essay in historical bibliography / Carla Hesse; title: The history of books: revised and enlarged / Johathan Rose; title: Robert Darnton's alternative (to the) Enlightenment / Jeremy D. Popkin; title: The great Enlightenment massacre / Daniel Gordon; title: Bypassing the Enlightenment: taking an underground route to revolution / Elizabeth L. Eisenstein; title: Why books caused a revolution: a reading of Robert Darnton / David A. Bell; title: Enlightenment, public opinion and politics in the work of Robert Darnton / Thomas E. Kaiser; title: Beyond empiricism: a comment on Robert Darnton's work / Renato Pasta; title: Pour de nouvelles approches de archives de la Société Typographique de Neuchâtel / Dominique Varry; title: Two paths through the social history of ideas / Robert Darnton.