Robert Darnton
1) George Washington's false teeth: an unconventional guide to the eighteenth century / Robert Darnton
Author
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2018.
Language
English
Description
"The publishing industry in France in the years before the Revolution was a lively and sometimes rough-and-tumble affair, as publishers and printers scrambled to deal with (and if possible evade) shifting censorship laws and tax regulations, in order to cater to a reading public's appetite for books of all kinds, from the famous Encyclopédie, repository of reason and knowledge, to scandal-mongering libel and pornography. Historian and librarian Robert...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
With his uncanny ability to spark life in the past, Robert Darnton re-creates three historical worlds in which censorship shaped literary expression in distinctive ways. In eighteenth-century France, censors, authors, and booksellers collaborated in making literature by navigating the intricate culture of royal privilege. Even as the king's censors outlawed works by Voltaire, Rousseau, and other celebrated Enlightenment writers, the head censor himself...
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