The Literary Underground of the Old Regime by I. R. Darnton, Robert Darnton

The Literary Underground of the Old Regime

France and Culture

I. R. Darnton, Robert Darnton

272 pages first pub 1982 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced

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Robert Darnton introduces us to the shadowy world of pirate publishers, garret scribblers, under-the-cloak book peddlers, smugglers, and police spies that composed the literary underground of the Enlightenment.Here are the ambitious writers who cr...

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