The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe, 1769-1794
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16580902 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeremy L Caradonna (University of Alberta, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 286-287 |
| Publication date | 2013-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | French History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0269-1191 • E-ISSN: 1477-4542 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/fh/crt025 |
| OpenAlex | W2330890294 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
It is a great pleasure to review ‘The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe, 1769–1794,’ which is a richly crafted database that ‘maps the trade of the Société Typographique de Neuchâtel’ (STN). If the STN sounds familiar, it is because Robert Darnton rescued that obscure Swiss publishing house from obscurity in a series of works, including the The Business of Enlightenment (1979) and The Literary Underground of the Old Regime (1982). Today, the records from this primarily francophone publishing house are housed in the public and university library of Neuchâtel, which possesses around 25,000 letters and account books from the eighteenth-century business. Darnton painstakingly waded through those materials and used them to produce gripping books that detailed the cloak-and-dagger politics of the STN—since many of the books that it published were banned in various European countries—as well as shop-floor cultural histories that allowed the reader to experience the lives of the printers who made the STN, at least for a while, very profitable.
Art · Art history · Economic history · Enlightenment · Literature · Media studies · Pleasure · Political science · Politics · Publishing · Sociology · Classics · European Political History Analysis · History · Law · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,27 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2021 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |