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The business of enlightenment [electronic resource] a publishing history of the Encyclopédie, 1775-1800

by: Darnton, Robert

Publication date: 1979

Usage: Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0

Topics: Diderot, Encyclopedie, encyclopedia, France, 18th century, publishing, Enlightenment, history, Encyclopédie, Encyclopedias and dictionaries, French

Publisher: Cambridge : Belknap Press

Collection: authorsalliance; additional_collections

Language: English

"In tracing the publishing story of Diderot’s Encyclopédie, Darnton uses new sources—the papers of eighteenth-century publishers—that allow him to respond firmly to a set of problems long vexing historians. He shows how the material basis of literature and the technology of its production affected the substance and diffusion of ideas."

Includes bibliography and index

Electronic reproduction