Slander has always been a nasty business, Robert Darnton notes, but that is no reason to consider it a topic unworthy of inquiry. By destroying reputations, it has often helped to delegitimize regimes and bring down governments. Nowhere has this been more the case than in eighteenth-century France, when a ragtag group of literary libelers flooded the market with works that purported to expose the wicked behavior of the great. Salacious or seditious, outrageous or hilarious, their books and pamphlets claimed to reveal the secret doings of kings and their mistresses, the lewd and extravagant...
Slander has always been a nasty business, Robert Darnton notes, but that is no reason to consider it a topic unworthy of inquiry. By destroying rep...
Anne Gedeon Lafitte Pelleport Vivian Folkenflik Robert Darnton
While the marquis de Sade was drafting "The 120 Days of Sodom" in the Bastille, another libertine marquis in a nearby cell was also writing a novel one equally outrageous, full of sex and slander, and more revealing for what it had to say about the conditions of writers and writing itself. Yet Sade's neighbor, the marquis de Pelleport, is almost completely unknown today, and his novel, "Les Bohemiens," has nearly vanished. Only a half dozen copies are available in libraries throughout the world. This edition, the first in English, opens a window into the world of garret poets, literary...
While the marquis de Sade was drafting "The 120 Days of Sodom" in the Bastille, another libertine marquis in a nearby cell was also writing a novel...
The world of illegal publishing in eighteenth-century France was large and varied, taking in the greatest works of Voltaire, Rousseau, Montesquieu, and Diderot, as well as the scandalous books of grub street writers. Here we have a map of that world, constructed by Robert Darnton based on his many years of research in the field. Darnton shows us the scope of this literary underground with a complete bibliography of the hundreds of books that circulated "under the cloak." He documents their geographical distribution throughout France, and measures the levels of demand for these books. By...
The world of illegal publishing in eighteenth-century France was large and varied, taking in the greatest works of Voltaire, Rousseau, Montesquieu, an...
1730'larin Paris'inde bir matbaanin ciraklari kendi kurduklari mahkemelerde yargiladiklari kedileri olumle cezalandirirlar. Bu hikayeyi tekrar tekrar anlatan ciraklar her seferinde katilarak gulerler. Kedilerin katledilmesinde ciraklari eglendiren ne olmustu? Nasil olmustu da "Kirmizi Baslikli Kiz" masalinin 18. yuzyil versiyonunda cocuk kurda yem olmustu? Montpellierli biri, yasadigi kentin tum etkinliklerini detayli bir sekilde yazarken aklindan neler geciyordu? Bunlar Robert Darnton'un, Aydinlanma cagindaki Avrupa'nin tarihine dair cevapladigi sorulardan bazilari. Ilk olarak 1984'te...
1730'larin Paris'inde bir matbaanin ciraklari kendi kurduklari mahkemelerde yargiladiklari kedileri olumle cezalandirirlar. Bu hikayeyi tekrar tekrar ...
