Author: DARNTON, ROBERT.
Title: The Literary Underground of the Old Regime.
Description: . Cambridge etc, 1982. ix,258pp. Index. Cloth. Dustjacket.*Robert Darnton introduces us to the shadowy world of pirate publishers, garret scribblers, under-the-cloak book peddlers, smugglers, and police spies that composed the literary underground of the Enlightenment. By drawing on an ingeneous selection of previously hidden sources, such as police ledgers and publishers' records, he reveals the fascinating world of that forgotten underworld..

Keywords: (Catalogues on) Music and Literabuchwesen Bibliography Bibliographie


See more books from our catalog: General Bibliography and Books About Books, Newspapers & Magazines