The writer's lot : culture and revolution in eighteenth-century France / Robert Darnton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Darnton, Robert, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French literature--18th century--History and criticism.

French literature.

Literature and society--France--History--18th century.

Literature and society.

Books and reading--France--History--18th century.

Books and reading.

France--Intellectual life--18th century.

France.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

231 pages ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Culture and revolution in eighteenth-century France

Culture and revolution in 18th-century France

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2025.

Summary:

"The Writer's Lot explores the working lives of eighteenth-century French authors--celebrities and unknowns--at a time when their example, if not often their ideas, changed the course of history. Taking the measure of "literary France" as a whole, Robert Darnton takes offers rare insight into the social ferment of the Age of Revolution"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Introduction: paths to Grub Street

Careers: the Ancien Régime

The facts of literary life

Contemporary views

Careers: revolutionary denouements.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Darnton, Robert. Writer's lot.

ISBN:

9780674299887

0674299884

OCLC:

1466097179