The French Press in the Age of Enlightenment

ISBN-13: 9780415097307 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 276 str.

Jack Richard Censer;Censer Jack; Jack R. Censer

Opis

The radical ideas of Voltaire and Rousseau critically influenced the French Revolution, but how did an entire generation learn about such ideas prior to the Revolution? Censer marshals a vast literature in order to provide a coherent and original interpretation of the role of the French press in the dissemination of social and political ideas in the years leading up to the Revolution. He also explores the relationship between journalists and government officials, and unearths a range of sophisticated censorship techniques employed by the government to keep Bad News off the front pages.

Recenzje

`The author offers a beautiful synthesis profiting from his own research and numerous works on the Old Regime press ...' – Nouvelles du Livre Ancien

`Un livre magistral.' - John Schosler, Lias: Sources and Documents Relating to the Early Modern History of Ideas

`Censer's book is a felicitous blend of comprehensive reading of secondary sources and his own research. ... Blending perceptive synthesis and original research, The French Press in the Age of the Enlightenment will instruct and challenge readers for many years to come.' – Harvey Chisick Haifa University

Spis treści

INTRODUCTION: THE PERIODICAL PRESS Part I Content 1 THE POLITICAL PRESS 2 THE AFFICHES 3 THE LITERARY—PHILOSOPHICAL PRESS Part II Milieu 4 EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY JOURNALISM AND ITS PERSONNEL 5 THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT AND THE PERIODICAL 6 THE READERSHIP, CONCLUSION

O autorze

Jack R. Censer is Professor of History at George Mason University. His most recent publications include The French Revolution and Intellectual History (1989), and he is series editor of Rewriting Histories.