Robert Darnton  

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Robert Darnton (born May 10, 1939) is an American cultural historian, recognized as a leading expert on eighteenth century France.

Darnton is a pioneer in the growing field of the history of the book. One of his books is The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France (New York: W.W. Norton, 1996).

In 1999 he was named a Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur, the highest award given by the French government, in recognition of his work.

Works

• Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France (1968)
• The Business of Enlightenment: A Publishing History of the Encyclopédie, 1775-1800 (1979)
• The Literary Underground of the Old Regime (1982) ISBN 0674536576
• The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History (1984)
• Revolution in Print: the Press in France 1775-1800 (1989) edited with Daniel Roche
• The Kiss of Lamourette: Reflections in Cultural History (1989)
• Edition et sédition. L'univers de la littérature clandestine au XVIIIe siècle (1991)
• Berlin Journal, 1989-1990 (1991)
• Gens de lettres, gens du livre (1992)
• The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France (1995)
• The Corpus of Clandestine Literature in France, 1769-1789 (1995)
• George Washington's False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century (June 2004)
• The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future. New York: NY Public Affairs. 2009. ISBN 978-1-58648-826-0.
• The Devil in the Holy Water, or the Art of Slander from Louis XIV to Napoleon. Philadelphia, PA: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2009. ISBN 978-0-8122-4183-9.
• Poetry and the Police: Communication Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press. 2010. ISBN 978-0-674-05715-9.
• Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature. New York, NY: W. W. Norton. 2014. ISBN 978-0-393-24229-4.
• A Literary Tour de France: The World of Books on the Eve of the French Revolution. Oxford University Press. 2018. ISBN 978-0-19-514451-2. (author website)

See also

• Neue Kulturgeschichte
• Republic of Letters
• Robert Darnton and the historiography of the Enlightenment
• Libelle (literary genre)
• The public sphere of the Enlightenment
• History of the book