The Literary Underground of the Old Regime by Robert Darnton

France and Culture

The Literary Underground of the Old Regime

Robert Darnton

272 pages 1982

2 editions

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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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.Here are the ambitious writers who cr...

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