The Literary Underground of the Old Regime
by Darnton
Explores the hidden world of illegal publishing and bookselling in eighteenth-century France and its broader historical impact.
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Examines the underground networks that distributed forbidden texts during the Old Regime.
Draws on archival sources to describe how booksellers and writers operated outside official channels.
Highlights the relationship between print culture and political change in pre-revolutionary France.
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