Robert Darnton
Biographic Data
| ID | 199627 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Darnton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Darnton |
| SIGNATURE | DARNTON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 82 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 190 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 82 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
« La France se prête bien à l’histoire-problème »
La force du sentiment
Dans La Condition d’écrivain (Gallimard, 2025), Robert Darnton propose une sociologie historique des écrivains dans la France du XVIIIe siècle. Dans cet entretien, il évoque la force des sentiments à l’époque prérévolutionnaire, son propre amour de la Révolution française et le danger du despotisme dans l’Amérique de Trump
Sélection thématique de livres
Cette rubrique signale des ouvrages rcemment parus.Ils sont classs en trois catgories : les ouvrages thmatiques par objet d'tude ; les ouvrages sur la science et ses rapports avec la socit ; les ouvrages de rflexion sur les sciences.Pour une description plus dtaille, cliquez sur le titre
La palette multicolore de Daniel Roche
In January and February 2025, on the occasion of Clio’s 30th anniversary, we circulated a questionnaire among the journal’s readers. Our aim was to understand the profiles, practices and reading habits of those who read Clio. This collectively written paper, by authors of various generations, offers an initial reading and interpretation of the results of the questionnaire, allowing us to grasp the issues surrounding the evolution and the future o…
A Pour Terreau Une Haine Collective Du Gouvernement
Según el estado actual de los conocimientos y un relativo consenso internacional, la identificación del alto potencial intelectual requiere una evaluación psicológica y una prueba homologada de inteligencia que conduzca a una puntuación general del Cociente Intelectual (CI) igual o superior a 130, lo que corresponde al 2,3 por ciento de la población. Esto concierne a cerca de 370 000 jóvenes menores de 20 años en Francia. Principalmente realizado…
Chanson et communication orale à Paris au milieu du XVIIIe siècle
Dans les années 2010, Robert Darnton, spécialiste de l’histoire culturelle de l’Europe moderne et de l’histoire des livres au xviiie siècle, et Hélène Delavault, chanteuse lyrique et de cabaret, se sont associés autour d’un projet de livre consacré à l’Affaire des Quatorze (Paris, éditions Gallimard, 2014). En suivant l’enquête menée par la police parisienne qui a arrêté quatorze personnes pour déterminer la provenance d’une ode portant atteinte …
Patrick Boucheron, Nicolas Delalande, Florian Mazel, Yann Potin, Pierre Singaravélou (dir.), Histoire mondiale de la France
Je vous remercie cordialement de cette invitation à rendre compte de l’Histoire mondiale de la France. Certes, elle m’honore mais aussi elle m’intimide, car il s’agit d’un livre de 800 pages, divisé en 146 chapitres écrits par 122 auteurs, un livre qui survole 40 000 ans et qui évoque des personnages innombrables, de l’homme de Cro-Magnon à Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Comment cerner un ouvrage pareil ? Je l’ai lu d’un bout à l’autre, mais cela était …
Las metamorfosis de las Cartas de un granjero americano de Crèvecœur
Roger Chartier y las migraciones históricas de la cultura escrita
La democratización del libro
En esta nota, Robert Darnton, renombrado historiador cultural y del libro, comparte unas reflexiones en torno a esta invención y el devenir histórico de su circulación comercial. Comentando la piratería de libros de los siglos XVII y XVIII y los intentos contemporáneos de plataformas como Google de crear repositorios virtuales, Darnton pone en debate la tensión que existe entre los derechos de autor y la democratización de la lectura a través de …
Francia, se te escapa el café
Este artigo examina a transição da história do livro para a história da comunicação no contexto da Revolução Francesa. Questionando as abordagens tradicionais que focam em transformações sociais ou análises filosóficas das ideologias, Darnton argumenta que esses métodos não explicam completamente a singularidade do caso francês. Ele propõe considerar os modos de comunicação, especificamente o impacto da comunicação impressa, que se expandiu signi…
Interpretation of Cultures
Knowledge Unbound
From Printing Shop to Bookshelves
The Demand for Literature in France, 1769-1789, and the Launching of a Digital Archive
Le livre, des Lumières au numérique
Poetry and the Police
La chandelle de Jefferson
Pour une solution internationale
Poetry and the Police
Apologie du livre. Demain, aujourd’hui, hier
Les grands éditeurs ont tant augmenté les tarifs des revues périodiques, en particulier dans les sciences naturelles, qu’ils ont fait des ravages dans les budgets des bibliothèques de recherche. Afin de maintenir leurs collections de périodiques, celles-ci ont réduit de façon drastique leurs achats de monographies. Confrontées au déclin des commandes des bibliothèques, les presses universitaires ont quasiment cessé de publier dans les secteurs le…
Bohème littéraire et Révolution
La place des philosophes du XVIIIe siècle dans la préparation de la Révolution française a fait l'objet de controverses passionnées. Mais les historiens ne s'étaient guère, jusqu'à Robert Darnton, penchés sur le rôle des écrivains de second ordre – qu'ils tirent à Paris le diable par la queue en fabriquant une littérature pornographique et politique ou qu'ils se soient exilés à Londres, voire ailleurs, pour éviter l'embastillement. Ces ratés de l…
Bohème littéraire et révolution
Cette étude se penche sur la place des écrivains de second ordre dans la préparation de la Révolution française. Le paysage des Lumières, vu des boutiques de libraires ou des officines de la police, à la croisée entre histoire de l'édition et sociologie des auteurs et du public, pose en termes novateurs la question de la lecture et de la vie intellectuelle au XVIIIe siècle
The Business of Enlightenment
Wissenskultur Tanz
Tanz als eigene Wissenskultur zu begreifen, ist nicht selbstverständlich. Doch steht außer Frage, dass dem Tanzen Wissensformen zukommen, die aus Praxeologien und Theoriebildungen hervorgehen. Aber bildet die Tanzkunst auch eine Wissenskultur? Worin bestünde sie und welche Erkenntnisziele und Erfahrungswerte sind am Werk? Vor diesem Fragehorizont greift der Sammelband in bestehende Diskussionen ein, um aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive das inter…
Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 151, 2006 Lectures
This series features distinguished works in the humanities and social sciences. This volume of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains fifteen lectures delivered at the British Academy in 2006. Subjects covered range from consideration of Einstein, to discussions of coercion and consent in Nazi Germany, and judicial independence.
The Business of Enlightenment
Darnton explores some fascinating territory in the genre of histoire du livre and tracks the diffusion of Enlightenment ideas. He is concerned with the form of the thought of the great philosophes as it materialized into books and with the way books were made and distributed in the business of publishing
In Search of the Enlightenment
What Is the History of Books?” Revisited
Having accepted the invitation to revisit my essay of 1982, “What Is the History of Books?”, I find that I can do it only in the first person singular and therefore must ask to be excused for indulging in some autobiographical detail. I would also like to make a disclaimer: in proposing a model for studying the history of books twenty-four years ago, I did not mean to tell book historians how they ought to do their jobs. I hoped that the model mi…
Literary Surveillance in the British Raj
the Bengal Library into a great repository of literature.And the government of Bengal used the filled-out forms to keep a record of all the books published in the province.It printed them in the form of a "catalogue", which it issued four times a year as a supplement to its official gazette.The Indian Civil Service (ICS) tried to keep track of books in the same way that it compiled information on grain harvests, irrigation ditches, railroads, and…
First Steps Toward a History of Reading
Preface (2014) by Robert DarntonThe First toward a history of that I described in AJFS twenty-eight years ago have now turned into something of a stampede. They lead in many directions-so many that I cannot map them here. The excellent anthology edited by Guglielmo Cavallo and Roger Chartier, A History of Reading in the West (English edition, Polity Press, 1999) surveys much of the ground covered by the end of the century. But the twentieth centu…
The Symbolic Element in History
The High Enlightenment and the Low-Life of Literature in Pre-Revolutionary France
The High Enlightenment and the Low-Life of Literature in Pre-Revolutionary France* Robert Darnton Where does so much mad agitation come from? From a crowd of minor clerks and lawyers, from unknown writers, starving scribblers, who go about rabble-rousing in clubs and cafes. These are the hotbeds that have forged the weapons with which the masses are armed today. P. J. B. Gerbier, June 1789 The nation’s rewards must be meted out to those who are w…
Censorship, a Comparative View
Research Article| January 01 1995 Censorship, a Comparative View: France, 1789-East Germany, 1989 Robert Darnton Robert Darnton Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1995) 49: 40-60. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928748 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search…
Discourse and Diffusion
The article critically explores the different paths chosen by closely related historical disciplines: intellectual history and the history of books. While the former has focused on discourse analysis, the latter has given more attention to the study of diffusion. Historians who study the diffusion of books commonly run into a difficulty: the best-sellers of the past may serve as an indicator of public taste, but they may also be trivial, and they…
Dialogue à propos de l'histoire culturelle
Bourdieu Pierre, Chartier Roger, Darnton Robert. Dialogue à propos de l'histoire culturelle. In: Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales. Vol. 59, septembre 1985. Stratégies de reproduction-2. pp. 86-93
Le Peuple de Paris
Policing Writers in Paris Circa 1750
Research Article| January 01 1984 Policing Writers in Paris Circa 1750 Robert Darnton Robert Darnton Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1984) 5: 1–31. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928572 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation…
The Demand for Literature in France, 1769-1789, and the Launching of a Digital Archive
Mademoiselle Bonafon and the Private Life of Louis XV
In 1745 a chambermaid in Versailles was shut up in the Bastille for publishing a roman à clef about the sex life of Louis XV. In attempting to get to the bottom of the case, the police uncovered some remarkable information about how oral media and print culture intersected. Their investigation opens up some broad issues related to the history of women, authorship, reading, and public opinion
How historians play God
This essay recounts the career of Jacques-Pierre Brissot, the leader of the Girondists during the French Revolution, in a manner designed to pose questions about the nature of historical research in general. How, in piecing together information taken from scraps of paper, do historians come to an understanding of other lives? Put in the abstract, the problem belongs to epistemology or ethics. Confronted in practice, it is more like the puzzles un…
The Business of the Enlightenment
The Encyclopedie Wars of Prerevolutionary France
The Grub Street Style of Revolution
Francia, se te escapa el café
Este artigo examina a transição da história do livro para a história da comunicação no contexto da Revolução Francesa. Questionando as abordagens tradicionais que focam em transformações sociais ou análises filosóficas das ideologias, Darnton argumenta que esses métodos não explicam completamente a singularidade do caso francês. Ele propõe considerar os modos de comunicação, especificamente o impacto da comunicação impressa, que se expandiu signi…
Le livre, des Lumières au numérique
Anthropology, History, and Clifford Geertz
March/April 2007 Historically Speaking 33 The Legacy of Clifford Geertz: A Roundtable CUFFORD GEERTZ (1926-2006) WAS ONE OF THE LEADING cultural anthropologists of his time. Over his distinguished career, thirty-sixyears of which were spent on thefaculty of the InstituteforAdvancedStudy, he made majorcontributions to socialand cultural theory. Shortly afterhis death in October, we askedseveral historians to comment briefly on Geert^s influence on…
Vies privées et affaires publiques sous l'Ancien Régime
Parmi les plus grands succès de la littérature clandestine de l’Ancien Régime, on compte bon nombre de « libelles » et de « chroniques scandaleuses », c’est-à-dire d’ouvrages populaires traitant des affaires publiques à la lumière de la vie privée des principaux personnages du royaume, à commencer par le roi lui-même. D’où provient cette littérature ? Comment a-t-elle vu le jour ? Quel écho trouve-t-elle auprès du public à la veille de la Révolut…
Le nouvel âge du livre
Le prix des abonnements des revues ne cessant d'augmenter, les bibliotheques reduisent l'achat des monographies. L'edition electronique peut-elle etre alors un substitut notamment pour la publication des monographies tirees des theses ? Se posent les problemes de cout, de reconnaissance par les pairs
La France, ton café fout le camp
From the History of the Book to the History of Communication When, following Mornet, one tries to understand the ori-gins of the French Revolution, and in particular the role of the « Enlightenment », the two major approaches that emerged more than twenty-five years ago, one working through social history and the other through the philo-sophical analysis of ideologies, do not provide entirely satisfactory answers to the problem. Social transforma…
Edition et Sedition. L'Univers de la litterature clandestine au XVIIIe siecle
Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France
The Grub Street Style of Revolution
The memoirs of Lenoir, lieutenant de police of Paris, 1774-1785
The memoirs of Lenoir, lieutenant de police of Paris, 1774–1785 Get access ROBERT DARNTON ROBERT DARNTON Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXXV, Issue 336, July 1970, Pages 532–559, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXXV.336.532 Published: 01 July 1970
In Search of the Enlightenment
The Encyclopedie Wars of Prerevolutionary France
The Encyclopédie Wars of Prerevolutionary France
Journal Article The Encyclopédie Wars of Prerevolutionary France Get access Robert Darnton Robert Darnton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 78, Issue 5, December 1973, Pages 1331–1352, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/78.5.1331 Published: 01 December 1973
Le livre français à la fin de l' Ancien Régime
Le livre français, personnage central de cette étude, menait une vie complexe au XVIIIe siècle, une vie publique et une vie privée, une vie mondaine et une vie secrète, ' sous le manteau ', et souterraine. Faire revivre cet être extraordinaire, c'est l'objet de plusieurs études récentes, faites notamment dans le cadre de l'École Pratique des Hautes Études. Nous avons essayé de collaborer à cette entreprise en dépouillant une source négligée, les …
The High Enlightenment and the Low-Life of Literature in Pre-Revolutionary France
The High Enlightenment and the Low-Life of Literature in Pre-Revolutionary France* Robert Darnton Where does so much mad agitation come from? From a crowd of minor clerks and lawyers, from unknown writers, starving scribblers, who go about rabble-rousing in clubs and cafes. These are the hotbeds that have forged the weapons with which the masses are armed today. P. J. B. Gerbier, June 1789 The nation’s rewards must be meted out to those who are w…
The Business of Enlightenment
Darnton explores some fascinating territory in the genre of histoire du livre and tracks the diffusion of Enlightenment ideas. He is concerned with the form of the thought of the great philosophes as it materialized into books and with the way books were made and distributed in the business of publishing
The Business of Enlightenment
The Business of Enlightenment
The Business of the Enlightenment
Paideia for Profit
The Business of Enlightenment, a Publishing History of the Encyclopédie 1775-1800
The Literary Underground of the Old Regime
The Literary Underground of the Old Regime
Sounding the Literary Market in Prerevolutionary France
IF INTELLECTUAL AND SOCIAL HISTORY ever combine in an attack on a common problem, they could not find a better subject than the literary marketplace of the Old Regime. By 1750 a grand public was clamoring for books in France, and printers were producing more of them than ever. But how did supply meet demand? In an era of elaborate censorship and underdeveloped marketing, publishers had to find ways not only to get books to their customers but als…
Le Peuple de Paris
In Memoriam
Like most of the readers of this journal, I study French history at a distance, separatedfrom my subject by aforeign language, two centuries, and three thousand miles of ocean. Last year, however, I received a letter that made me see French history from a different perspective. It came from a retired civil servant, Francois Carlotti. He had stumbled upon something I had written; and as I seemed to be interested in his country, he thought I might …
The Literary Underground of the Old Regime
Policing Writers in Paris Circa 1750
Research Article| January 01 1984 Policing Writers in Paris Circa 1750 Robert Darnton Robert Darnton Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1984) 5: 1–31. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928572 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation…
The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History
Dialogue à propos de l'histoire culturelle
Bourdieu Pierre, Chartier Roger, Darnton Robert. Dialogue à propos de l'histoire culturelle. In: Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales. Vol. 59, septembre 1985. Stratégies de reproduction-2. pp. 86-93
The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History
Les encyclopédistes et la police
Darnton Robert. Les encyclopédistes et la police. In: Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie, n°1, 1986. pp. 94-109
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