The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe I
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The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe I

Selling Enlightenment

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The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe I

Selling Enlightenment

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This volume is a ground-breaking contribution to enlightenment studies and the international and cross-cultural history of print. The result of a five year research project, the volume traces the output and dissemination of books and how reading tastes changed in the years 1769-1794. Mapping the book trade of the Société Typographique de Neuchùtel (STN), a Swiss publisher-wholesaler which operated throughout Europe, the authors reconstruct the cosmopolitan elite culture of the later enlightenment, incorporating many engaging case studies. The STN's archives are uniquely rich in both detail and range, and while these archives have long attracted book historians (notably Robert Darnton, a leading scholar of the Enlightenment), existing work is fragmentary and limited in scope. By means of comparative study, the author considers the entire book market across Europe, making local, regional and chronological nuances, based on advanced taxonomies of subject content, author information, markers of illegality and much more. This volume is, in short, the most diverse and detailed study of the late 18th-century book trade yet, while offering fresh insights into the enlightenment.

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2018
ISBN
9781441111692
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
Early Modern History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Contents
  4. List of Figures
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Preface
  7. Introduction – The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe
  8. Chapter 1: A Printing Shop across the Border
  9. Chapter 2: The Myth of the Mountain Dwellers
  10. Chapter 3: The Republic of Books
  11. Chapter 4: The Storm Will Pass
  12. Chapter 5: Conclusion: Selling Enlightenment
  13. Epilogue – The End of the STN
  14. Appendix Essay – Decoding and Coding the French Book Trade
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index