Robert Darnton
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| '''Robert Darnton''' (1939) is an American [[cultural historian]] and academic librarian who specializes in [[18th-century France]]. | '''Robert Darnton''' (1939) is an American [[cultural historian]] and academic librarian who specializes in [[18th-century France]]. | ||
| - | Darnton is a pioneer in the growing field of the [[history of the book]]. One of his books is ''[[The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France]]'' (1996). | + | Darnton is a pioneer in the field of the [[history of the book]] He is known for books such as ''[[The Literary Underground of the Old Regime]]'' (1982), ''[[The Great Cat Massacre]]'' (1984) and ''[[The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France]]'' (1996). |
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"The perception of that distance may serve as a starting point of an investigation, for anthropologists have found that the best points of entry in an attempt to penetrate an alien culture can be those where it seems to be the most opaque. When you realize that you are not getting something--a joke, a proverb, a ceremony-- that is particularly meaningful to the natives, you can see where to grasp a foreign system of meaning in order to unravel it." --The Great Cat Massacre (1984) by Robert Darnton |
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Robert Darnton (1939) is an American cultural historian and academic librarian who specializes in 18th-century France.
Darnton is a pioneer in the field of the history of the book He is known for books such as The Literary Underground of the Old Regime (1982), The Great Cat Massacre (1984) and The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France (1996).
Works
- Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France (1968)
- The Business of Enlightenment: A Publishing History of the Encyclopédie, 1775-1800 (1979)
- The Literary Underground of the Old Regime (1982)
- The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History (1984)
- Revolution in Print: the Press in France 1775-1800 (1989) edited with Daniel Roche
- The Kiss of Lamourette: Reflections in Cultural History (1989)
- Edition et sédition. L'univers de la littérature clandestine au XVIIIe siècle (1991)
- Berlin Journal, 1989-1990 (1991)
- Gens de lettres, gens du livre (1992)
- The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France (1995)
- The Corpus of Clandestine Literature in France, 1769-1789 (1995)
- George Washington's False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century (June 2004)
- The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future. New York: NY Public Affairs. 2009.
- The Devil in the Holy Water, or the Art of Slander from Louis XIV to Napoleon. Philadelphia, PA: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2009.
- Poetry and the Police: Communication Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press. 2010.
- Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature. New York, NY: W. W. Norton. 2014.
- A Literary Tour de France: The World of Books on the Eve of the French Revolution. Oxford University Press. 2018.
See also
- Neue Kulturgeschichte
- Republic of Letters
- Robert Darnton and the historiography of the Enlightenment
- Libelle (literary genre)
- The public sphere of the Enlightenment
- History of the book
