Darnton, Robert

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DARNTON, Robert

DARNTON, Robert. American, b. 1939. Genres: History, Literary criticism and history. Career: Princeton University, NJ, Shelby Collum Davis Professor of European History. Publications: Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France, 1968; The Business of Enlightenment: A Publishing History of the Encyclopaedie, 1979; The Literary Underground of the Old Regime, 1982; The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History, 1984; The Kiss Lamourette: Reflections in Cultural History, 1989; Edition et sedition: L'universe de la litterature clandestine au XVIIe siecle, 1991; Berlin Journal, 1989-1990, 1991; Gens de lettres, gens du livre, 1992; The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France, 1994; The Corpus of Clandestine Literature in France, 1994; J.-P. Brissot, His Career and Correspondence (1779-1878), 2001; Pour les Lumieres: Defense, illustration, methode, 2020. EDITOR: (with D. Roche) Revolution in Print, 1989; (with O. Duhamel) Democratie, 1998. Address: Dept. of History, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, U.S.A.