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Order Nr. 53624 FORBIDDEN BEST-SELLERS OF PRE-REVOLUTIONARY FRANCE. Robert Darnton

FORBIDDEN BEST-SELLERS OF PRE-REVOLUTIONARY FRANCE.

New York: W.W. Norton, n.d.(1994). large 8vo. quarter cloth, dust jacket. xxiv, 440 pages. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Historically, 18th-century France offers a wide field of opportunity for students of publishing and bookselling and the social and political role of reading, and for proponents of alternative literature theories. The author discusses here unsanctioned texts of the time: utopian fantasy, pornographic hedonism, slanders, etc., along with the methods of sale and distribution and..... READ MORE about FORBIDDEN BEST-SELLERS OF PRE-REVOLUTIONARY FRANCE

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Order Nr. 115828 ÉDITION ET SÉDITION: L'UNIVERS DE LA LITTÉRATURE CLANDESTINE AU XVIIIE...

ÉDITION ET SÉDITION: L'UNIVERS DE LA LITTÉRATURE CLANDESTINE AU XVIIIE SIÈCLE.

(Paris): Gallimard, (1991). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. x, 11-278, (4) pages. Text in French. Part of the publisher's NRF Essays series. A study of the world of subversive, censored, and clandestine literature in Enlightenment-era 18th century France and its impact on the coming of the French Revolution of 1789. Table of contents, three appendices, index. Black and white illustrations. READ MORE about ÉDITION ET SÉDITION: L'UNIVERS DE LA LITTÉRATURE CLANDESTINE AU XVIIIE SIÈCLE

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