Into Print Limits and Legacies of the Enlightenment; Essays in Honor of Robert Darnton

Name: Into Print Limits and Legacies of the Enlightenment; Essays in Honor of Robert Darnton
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ISBN: 9780271050126

ISBN-10: 0271050128

ISBN-13: 9780271050126

Edition: 2011

Authors: Charles Walton

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The famous clash between Edmund Burke and Tom Paine over the Enlightenment's "evil" or "liberating" potential in the French Revolution finds presentday parallels in the battle between those who see the Enlightenment at the origins of modernity's many ills, such as imperialism, racism, misogyny, and totalitarianism, and those who see it as having forged an age of democracy, human rights, and freedom. The essays collected by Charles Walton in Into Print paint a more complicated picture. By focusing on print culture-the production, circulation, and reception of Enlightenment thought-they show how the Enlightenment was shaped through practice and reshaped over time. These essays expand upon an…

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List price: $79.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Publication date: 12/15/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 264
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Preface and Acknowledgments



"Un garon plein d'esprit mais extrmement dangereux: The Darnton Subversion"




Making News



A Trojan Horse in Parliament: International Publicity in the Age of the American Revolution




"The Bastard Child of a Noble House": Dtective and Middle-Class Culture in Interwar France




Print, Paper, Markets, and States



Who Were the Booksellers and Printers of Eighteenth-Century France?




Making the Fair Trader: Papermaking, the Excise, and the English State, 1700-1815




Commerce with Books: Reading Practices and Book Diffusion at the Habsburg Court in Florence (1765-1790)




Police and Opinion



Invasion of Lorient: Rumor, Public Opinion, and Foreign Politics in 1740s Paris




Book Seizures and the Politics of Repression in Paris, 1787-1789




Enlightenment in Revolution



A Grub Street Hack Goes to War




Reading in extremis: Revolutionaries Respond to Rousseau




Les graines de la discorde: Print, Public Spirit, and Free Market Politics in the French Revolution




Enlightenment Universalism and Cultural Difference



The Limits of Tolerance: Jews, the Enlightenment, and the Fear of Premature Burial




From Cosmopolitan Anticolonialism to Liberal Imperialism: French Intellectuals and Muslim North Africa in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries



Appendix: Publications



List of Contributors


Index