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	Book Review: Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revol. France (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Darnton observes at the outset that the term "philosophique" referred to whole categories of clandestine literature, as evidenced by the bills of sale and orders from book sellers.
		Darnton tries to generalize from the available records of one publishing house to a picture of the whole of France.
		Still, Darnton proceeds in such a manner that the reader is no surer of his opinion at the end of the book than he was before plunging in to this to me.
	www.mediahistory.umn.edu /reviews/print/996rev2.html (809 words)

	Online NewsHour: Chardin's World- August 30, 2000
		ROBERT DARNTON: A woman like this will be putting aside this pittance she gets at the end of the year for her dowry.
		ROBERT DARNTON: A scullery maid cleaning a pot, but she doesn't clean it with the water flowing.
		ROBERT DARNTON: "I don't finish a painting until it's perfect." And this has been taken up, I think probably rightly, by those who admire Chardin as the genius speaking, someone who understands that he's the great master of the 18th century.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/entertainment/july-dec00/chardin_8-30.html (1659 words)

	ROBERT DARNTON, GEORGE WASHINGTON'S FALSE TEETH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Robert Darnton is an historian at Princeton, specializing in the eighteenth century.
		Though he shrinks the scope of the Enlightenment, Darnton zigs in his argument to assert that its key ideas had a broad influence beyond France and still are alive and influential, despite the attacks of postmodernists.
		Darnton's comment deserves to be read as a gloss on numerous writers who, one way or the other, from Darnton's perspective, overly generalize the significance of The Enlightenment.
	webpages.ursinus.edu /rrichter/darnton.html (555 words)

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		Darnton immediately defended the usefulness of this primary source, even though the story was highly subjective and is not a factual recording of the actual event.
		Darnton constructs the final layer of analysis, that of sexuality, by noting that the domain of cat power was the household, and particularly the area of the mistress who owns the cat.
		Darnton's piece is both morbidly fascinating and intellectually stimulating, and digs into such arcane, interesting matters as the internal rituals of the journeymen's chapel.
	www.mousetrap.net /~mouse/uta/CATS.TXT (1595 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Robert Darnton explores the cultural and political significance of these "bad" books and introduces readers to three of the most influential illegal best-sellers, from which he includes substantial excerpts.
		From these premises, Darnton carefully explores the trade in forbidden books in seventeenth and eighteenth century France and the potential impact of that trade on popular consciousness and the ever-changing way in which the French Monarchy was perceived from the reign of Louis XIV until the Revolution.
		Darnton also elaborates on the various categories of forbidden literature, including the works of philosophical pornography, utopian fantasy and political slander which fed the public's desire for transgressive works and, ultimately, undermined the foundations of monarchical legitimacy.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0393037207 (1520 words)

	APHA Award 2005 citation
		Note: This is a summary of the citation for the Individual Award to Robert Darnton, and the Institutional Award to the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia.
		In 2005 the Individual Award will go to Robert Darnton, an outstanding teacher and lecturer who will be honored for his many publications as well as for his exemplary scholarship in the field of book history.
		Darnton's works continue to be very influential, appealing not only to the world of academe but to the general reader as well.
	www.printinghistory.org /htm/misc/awards/2005-citation.htm (334 words)

	The End of Reading
		In 1986, the American intellectual historian Robert Darnton wrote an essay cataloging what he called in the essay’s title “First Steps Toward a History of Reading.” It may be that this is one of the first occurrences of what has since become the name of a thriving discipline, the history of reading.
		Darnton acknowledges that documents, texts, writings may record or report someone’s reading experience, but they cannot give access directly to its inner dimensions, only to its outer manifestations, that is, to a text that another reader in turn will have to interpret.
		There may be a sense, however, in which Darnton’s dilemma brings one closer to this event being called the “invention of silent reading” than does the more realistic external history charted by Cavallo, Chartier, and their collaborators.
	www-rcf.usc.edu /~kamuf/text.html (5608 words)

	UCD US History: American Revolution to the French Revolution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Darnton says, "The Revolution retains its mythical force in France," so the French response, according to Darnton's principle of contextual reading, would be bouncing off that "mythical force." Because mythical perspective is sensitized to symbolism, Darnton's reflection on the symbolism of Robespierre's shoes, featured in the cinematic zoom-in, is significant for a French audience.
		Darnton discusses Danton's economic situation, then states that the Socialists in the government "had changed course and had adopted economic policies closer to those of Raymond Barre or Margaret Thatcher than to the radical program on which Mitterand had been elected.
		Darnton's particular "reflections on cultural history" provokingly concludes, "Meaning itself is shaped by context." Wajda's film about Danton invites multiple interpretations, depending on a Warsaw or Paris context, of the "ghosts of Robespierre and Danton." We have been reading a survey of contrasting historiographical perspectives.
	carbon.cudenver.edu /~rpekarek/frev.html (1594 words)

	Rukavina MMLA 2003 (printable)
		Robert Darnton's often-cited and influential communication circuit posits that book history concerns the life of the book as it moves within a circuit from the author to the publisher, from the publisher to the bookseller, and so on (11).
		Also, Darnton's model does not account for the variable and unpredictable nature of the book trade, and the fact that book distribution was not always a linear movement from the publisher, to the distributor, to the bookseller, and so on.
		While Jordan and Patten recognise that Darnton's communications circuit is rigid, their solutions fail to account for the underlying problem that the majority of methodologies in Print Culture suffer from: work is often predicated on the study of books within a national setting.
	www.cwru.edu /affil/sce/Texts_2003/Rukavinaptr.htm (2978 words)

	AHA Information: Robert Darnton Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The kiss of Lamourette: reflections in cultural history, by Robert Darnton.
		The corpus of clandestine literature in France, 1769-1789, by Robert Darnton.
		The forbidden best-sellers of pre-revolutionary France, by Robert Darnton.
	www.historians.org /info/AHA_History/rdarntonbibliography.htm (197 words)

	Princeton - Weekly Bulletin 03/28/05 - Darnton: Books reveal volumes about times past
		Robert Darnton, shown here in the Scheide Library, says the importance of books comes not only from their inherent value but from the answers they provide to historical questions.
		Darnton, who is the Shelby Cullom Davis ’30 Professor of European History and an expert on early modern France, is an ambassador for the field of the history of books.
		Darnton starts the course by making use of one of Princeton’s richest resources for the study of this field: the Scheide Library, which is housed in Firestone Library and is considered the finest private library in the United States.
	www.princeton.edu /pr/pwb/05/0328/1b.shtml (1491 words)

	Darnton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Before moving on to Darnton’s analysis, however, it is necessary to examine a fundamental debate at the heart of literary history: diffusion vs. discourse.
		Darnton does admit that claiming the French people “snapped circa 1750” and became irreparably separated from the notion of monarchical sovereignty, may be a modern manipulation of rather flimsy historical evidence.
		Robert Darnton’s scholarship should not be discounted because of his failed thesis—the topic attended to in this book is certainly unique in literary history, which is itself a relatively new field.
	people.bu.edu /trgosox/academic_projects/darnton.htm (3127 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Robert Darnton is one of many who are cultivating the history of the book as a viable academic discipline.
		The framework is necessary in Darnton’s view because “the parts do not take on their full significance unless they are related to the whole” and to “avoid being fragmented into esoteric specializations cut off from each other by arcane techniques and mutual misunderstanding” (Darnton, 1990).
		Thus, the work of Darnton and the Center for the Study of Books and Media is to bring together researchers from various departments to spark cross-disciplinary research with a shared goal of furthering the field and eventually offer degree programs in book history.
	www.gslis.utexas.edu /~kimpen/history/darnton.doc (558 words)

	Bublos.com, Books ›› Great Cat Massacre: And Other Episodes in French Cultural History (Basic Books Classics) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Darnton's book is a series of essays on the life of the common folk in Enlightenment France.
		Darnton is thorough in his approach and writes well, keeping his audience entertained.
		Darnton's writing is easy to digest and the subjects of his essays are always interesting.
	www.bublos.com /isbn/0465015565.html (810 words)

	Eurozine - Articles
		Robert Darnton outlines his vision on new forms of electronic publishing and its effects on libraries and journals, universities and on ways of bookreading.
		Robert Darnton: Yes, I agree that journalism has always been important to me, first as a family affair and later as a subject of study.
		Robert Darnton, "Two paths through the social history of ideas", Haydn T. Mason (ed.
	www.eurozine.com /article/2004-06-21-darnton-en.html (4213 words)

	Amazon.com: George Washington's False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century: Books: Robert Darnton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		As Princeton history professor Darnton notes in his introduction, "everything about the eighteenth century is strange, once you examine it in detail." His pleasingly eccentric book of essays offers many surprising supporting examples.
		But this isn't a mere laundry list of oddities; Darnton is thoughtful and engaging in his historical analysis of the Enlightenment, and his narrative, in which he occasionally appears in the musing, professorial first person, will absorb the educated lay reader.
		Throughout, Darnton uses the 18th century to provide "historical perspective to current questions"-about, for example, the shifting of European identity and the Internet's influence on information sharing-and openly ruminates about the problems of being a historian.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393057607?v=glance (1728 words)

	Alibris: Robert Darnton
		Darnton writes on seemingly obscure episodes and characters, teasing out layers of meaning in his unique approach to cultural history.
		This collection of essays and reviews from the historian Robert Darnton covers a wide range of interests including 18th-century France, books and bookselling, the relationship of history to the social sciences, and Darnton's own personal history.
		Darnton's selection and scholarship reveal the popular, street-level origins of what has too-often been seen only as an exchange of elevated ideas.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Robert_Darnton (556 words)

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		When Robert Darnton launches into readers' responses to Rousseau's novel Julie, he mentions several critics who make use of reader-response theory and even four "examples of work concerning Rousseau"; but these are all lumped together into the first footnote, and that is the end of it.
		Darnton nonetheless stuck by its essence: there is a particular style that in some ineffable way distinguishes France's culture from its neighbors'.
		In the discussion of the 1790s, two uses of literature are in play: singular, or the reading of particular texts offering exemplary value; and plural, in the form either of predominant usage or of aggregate numerical evidence (how many novels were written, or the prevalence of certain subjects or of certain words in their titles).
	www.duke.edu /~pstewart/JMH.htm (8008 words)

	H-Net Review: Christopher J. Garton-Zavesky on The Forbidden Best-Sellers of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Robert Darnton's latest scholarly endeavor is a two volume work, the first volume of which is titled
		Darnton observes at the outset that the term "philosophique" referred to whole categories of clandestine literature, as evidenced by the bills of sale and orders from booksellers.
		Still, Darnton proceeds in such a manner that the reader is no surer of his opinion at the end of the book than he was before plunging into this.
	www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=12494851404939 (873 words)

	An Early Information Society: News and the Media in Eighteenth-Century Paris, Online discussion: Topic/Reply 1
		In developing the codes of the Parisian French, Darnton does "demonstrate the promise of a new subdiscipline, the history of communication, which can be applied to research in virtually any field of study" ("In This Issue," AHR 105 [February 2000]: xiv).
		Darnton's address places us back in touch with one of the wellsprings of Western civilization, the French Revolution.
		Darnton connects the current masses via the media explosion of the Third Millennium with the masses of the French Revolution two centuries earlier.
	www.historycooperative.org /ahr/darnton_files/darnton/discussion/d01.html (939 words)

	Harvard University Press: The Literary Underground of the Old Regime (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Robert Darnton introduces us to the shadowy world of pirate publishers, garret scribblers, under-the-cloak book peddlers, smugglers, and police spies that composed the literary underground of the Enlightenment.
		By drawing on an ingenious selection of previously hidden sources, such as police ledgers and publishers' records, Robert Darnton reveals for the first time the fascinating story of that forgotten underworld.
		Robert Darnton is Professor of History at Princeton University.
	www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/DARLIX.html (306 words)

	The Great Cat Massacre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Darnton instead of the old style of viewing history looks at it through the eyes of the people, and not the figures of history.
		Darnton’s book The Great Cat Massacre, reexamines French culture during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteen century with the eyes of the peasant’s.
		Robert Darnton looks at the writings of the peasant’s, and traces them to their origins and compares them to other text of similar origins and text, to create credible accounts or views of particular
	www.radessays.com /link.php?site=re&aff=r2c2&dest=viewpaper.php?request=81062 (280 words)

	AHA Information: Robert Darnton Presidential Address (1999) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		From Robert Darnton, The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France (New York, 1995), 189.
		Not merely by reading our daily newspaper but by rereading the history of an earlier information age, when the king's secret was exposed beneath the tree of Cracow and the media knit themselves together in a communication system so powerful that it proved to be decisive in the collapse of the regime.
		Robert Darnton is the Davis Professor of European History at Princeton University.
	www.historians.org /info/AHA_History/rdarnton.htm (12560 words)

	Penn Humanities Forum hosts Robert Darnton
		Darnton regales us with the results of his recently completed study of the scandalous literature attached to the court and Louis XV.
		It begins with police archives—the case of a servant woman who wrote a novel about the king's sex life—and opens onto a discussion of romans à clef and reading.
		Robert Darnton has been called one of the most original contributors to our understanding of life in pre-revolutionary Paris.
	humanities.sas.upenn.edu /02-03/darnton.htm (212 words)

	History \| Robert Darnton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Throughout his career Professor Darnton has concerned himself with the literary world of Enlightenment France, often focusing not on the philosophes but on writers outside the first rank and the material they produced.
		In the course of this work Professor Darnton has developed an influential anthropological approach to history, has advanced novel interpretations of the French Revolution, and has helped to create the field known as âthe history of the book.â He also has a longstanding interest in electronic books, Web publishing, and other new media.
		Professor Darnton is currently working on two books: a study of the libelles, a genre of scandalous books involving defamation of government officials and prominent people that flourished in France in the second half of the 18th century; and a large-scale history of publishing and the book trade in late-18th-century France.
	his.princeton.edu /people/e14/darnton/profile.html (489 words)

	Columbia News ::: Reading, Ethics and the Literary Imagination Are the Focus of Lionel Trilling Seminar
		Brian Stock, University of Toronto, discusses reading, ethics and the literary imagination in late antiquity and the early renaissance through the works of Augustine and Petrarch, arguing that their works represent a turning point in the history of relations between a reading culture, the practice of an ethical life and the literary imagination.
		Robert Darnton, Princeton University, elaborates on how the history of literature in the last 20 years has been a trajectory leading from great expectations to lost illusions, from Dickens to Balzac.
		Darnton contends that two decades ago reading was supposed to lead to a broad history of culture but, instead, it has lead to a history of literature that is "bogged down in disputes over paratexts and paradigms."
	www.columbia.edu /cu/news/vforum/01/lionel_trilling (232 words)

	The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 576 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		In this spirit, I researched a conversation between Robert Darnton and Hans Albrecht Grohmann during a recent trip to Germany.
		Darnton is one of the contributors to CTRL+SPACE: Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother (ZKM Center for Arts & Media, MIT Press, 2002).
		Robert Darnton calls this "Stasi consciousness" -- the feeling of being overheard when you make a phone call, or being watched when you cross a street.
	www.thedailystar.net /2006/01/08/d601081501104.htm (1444 words)

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