Into Print

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

Charles Walton

“Un garçon plein d’esprit mais extrêmement dangereux: The Darnton Subversion”

Roger Chartier

Part 1: Making News

1 A Trojan Horse in Parliament: International Publicity in the Age of the American Revolution

Will Slauter

2 “The Bastard Child of a Noble House”: Détective and Middle-Class Culture in Interwar France

Sarah Maza

Part 2: Print, Paper, Markets, and States

3 Who Were the Booksellers and Printers of Eighteenth-Century France?

Thierry Rigogne

4 Making the Fair Trader: Papermaking, the Excise, and the English State, 1700–1815

Leonard N. Rosenband

5 Commerce with Books: Reading Practices and Book Diffusion at the Habsburg Court in Florence (1765–1790)

Renato Pasta

Part 3: Police and Opinion

6 Invasion of Lorient: Rumor, Public Opinion, and Foreign Politics in 1740s Paris

Tabetha Ewing

7 Book Seizures and the Politics of Repression in Paris, 1787–1789

Thomas M. Luckett

Part 4: Enlightenment in Revolution

8 A Grub Street Hack Goes to War

David A. Bell

9 Reading in extremis: Revolutionaries Respond to Rousseau

Carla Hesse

10 Les graines de la discorde: Print, Public Spirit, and Free Market Politics in the French Revolution

Charles Walton

Part 5: Enlightenment Universalism and Cultural Difference

11 The Limits of Tolerance: Jews, the Enlightenment, and the Fear of Premature Burial

Jeffrey Freedman

12 From Cosmopolitan Anticolonialism to Liberal Imperialism: French Intellectuals and Muslim North Africa in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

Shanti Singham

Appendix: Publications by Robert Darnton

List of Contributors

Index

“Along with Daniel Roche, Robert Darnton has been the most influential historian of eighteenth-century France during the last four decades. From his early work on Mesmerism to his most recent study of communication networks in Enlightenment Paris, Darnton has written about an impressively broad array of topics, from peasant folk tales to the publishing business. . . . Charles Walton’s volume will be of great interest to a wide audience because the chapters are skillfully compressed, providing the advanced undergraduate and graduate student accessible entry points into the historical debates and trends that Darnton has shaped. Because this volume contains contributions from leading historians who, like their mentor, are opening new vistas of French and European history, this collection is both a celebration of a pathbreaking past and an adumbration of a promising future.”

—Kenneth Loiselle, H-France Review