The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe I

Selling Enlightenment

Dr Mark Curran (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

248 Seiten

2018
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-4411-7890-9 (ISBN)

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This volume is a ground-breaking contribution to enlightenment studies and the international and cross-cultural history of print. The result of a five year research project, the volume traces the output and dissemination of books and how reading tastes changed in the years 1769-1794. Mapping the book trade of the Société Typographique de Neuchâtel (STN), a Swiss publisher-wholesaler which operated throughout Europe, the authors reconstruct the cosmopolitan elite culture of the later enlightenment, incorporating many engaging case studies. The STN's archives are uniquely rich in both detail and range, and while these archives have long attracted book historians (notably Robert Darnton, a leading scholar of the Enlightenment), existing work is fragmentary and limited in scope. By means of comparative study, the author considers the entire book market across Europe, making local, regional and chronological nuances, based on advanced taxonomies of subject content, author information, markers of illegality and much more. This volume is, in short, the most diverse and detailed study of the late 18th-century book trade yet, while offering fresh insights into the enlightenment.

Mark Curran is Lecturer in Early Modern History at Queen Mary, University of London, UK.

1. Introduction
2. A Publishing House Across the Border?
3. Accounting for Books
4. Running a Publishing House
5. Business Networks
6. Literary and Book Trade Clients
7. Rivals or Allies: The STN and its Competitors
8. Getting to Market: The History of a Book
9. The Politics of Publishing
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	9.8.2018
Zusatzinfo	3 Maps
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	517 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
ISBN-10	1-4411-7890-2 / 1441178902
ISBN-13	978-1-4411-7890-9 / 9781441178909
Zustand	Neuware