by Robert Darnton · Gallimard · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070722129
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«Édition et sédition» is Robert Darnton's essay on clandestine literature in 18th-century France (Gallimard, 1991, in French, 278 pp.).
Darnton reconstructs the circuit of prohibited literature in 18th-century France: printers on the borders, smugglers, pedlars and booksellers who sold pamphlets, scandalous chronicles and materialist writings under the counter. He argues that these seditious publications undermined the Old Regime in readers' imaginations.
Paperback, in the NRF essais collection. Original work in English: The Literary Underground of the Old Regime (1982). Includes bibliographical references and index.
Work of interest to readers of French history, the history of the book and 18th-century intellectual life.
Robert Choate Darnton is an American cultural historian and academic librarian who specializes in 18th-century France.
