Literary Tour de France: The World of Books on the Eve of the French Revolution

Reference Type Book
Year of Publication
2018
Author
Author: Robert Darnton
Language
English
Number of Pages
358 pp.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
City
New York, NY
Region
Europe
Chronological Period
18th century
ISBN
9780195144512
Annotation

Contents: 

  • Introduction: the world of books
  • Neuchâtel: our man on Mission
  • Pontarlier: smuggling the border crossings
  • Lons-le-Saunier: sizing up shops
  • Bourg-en-Bresse: selling books, collecting bills
  • Lyon: entrepreneurs and buccaneers
  • Lyon: domestic contraband
  • Avignon: the trade in trading
  • Nîmes, Montpellier, Marseille: the struggle for survival in the South
  • Toulouse, Bordeaux, La Rochelle, Poitiers: hard scrabble in the Southwest
  • Loudun: peddling and the capillary system
  • Blois, Orléans, Dijon: upmarket and downmarket in France's heartland
  • Besançon: book country at its best
  • Neuchâtel: an overview of the demand for literature
  • Conclusion: lived literature
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