Robert Darnton (Universit Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor

Pirating and Publishing

The Book Trade in the Age of Enlightenment

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The story of how book piracy in pre-Revolutionary France expanded the reach of the works that would inspire momentous change.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 398
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 724g
• ISBN-13: 9780195144529
• ISBN-10: 019514452X
• Artikelnr.: 59260667

Autorenporträt

Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and University Librarian, Emeritus of Harvard University, and the author of The Great Cat Massacre (1984) and A Literary Tour de France (2018), among others.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Publishing
1. The Rules of the Game and How the Game was Played
2. The Landscape in Paris
3. The Fertile Crescent
Pirating
4. How to Pirate a Book
5. Portraits of Pirates and Their Businesses
6. Underground Geneva
7. A Confederation of Pirates
8. The Struggle to Pirate Rousseau and Voltaire
Inside a Swiss Publishing House
9. Business as Usual
10. Our Man in Paris
11. Relations with Authors
12. Making and Losing Money
Conclusion
Acknowledgements