Enlightenment Bestsellers
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Using the latest digital-humanities techniques, Simon Burrowss book gives us new insights into the readers and publishers of the Enlightenment era. His conclusions challenge the popular interpretations of scholars such as Robert Darnton and Jonathan Israel and force us to rethink the notion of Enlightenment bestsellers. This is a valuable contribution to book history and the history of the circulation of ideas. * Jeremy D. Popkin, William T. Bryan Chair of History, University of Kentucky, USA *
Simon Burrows is Professor of History at Western Sydney University, Australia. His many publications include A King's Ransom (2010), and The Chevalier d'Eon and His Worlds, edited with Jonathan Conlin, Russell Goulbourne and Valerie Mainz (2010).
1. At the Shield of Minerva 2. The Elusive Enlightenment 3. The Book in Enlightenment Culture 4. Searching (for) Enlightenment in a Swiss Printshop 5. The Intellectual Geography of the STN 6. Forgotten Bestsellers 7. Troubling Taxonomies 8. The Anatomy of the Illegal Sector 9. Enlightened Cosmopolitanism and Novel Concerns 10. Of Science, Faith and Reason 11. From Swiss Politics to Revolutionary History 12. Conclusion Appendix 1: Designer Notes on the French Book Trade Database Appendix 2: Towards a Digital History of the Book Bibliography Index