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04070aam a2200421 i 4500 001 DDF45A6C370411E887D7D95B97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180403010230 008 170801s2018 nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2017015375 020 $a 0195144511 020 $a 9780195144512 035 $a (OCoLC)982092908 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BTCTA $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d BNG $d YDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-sz--- $a e------ $a e-sz--- 050 00 $a Z305 D34 2018 100 1 $a Darnton, Robert, $e author. 245 12 $a A literary tour de France : $b the world of books on the eve of the French Revolution / $c Robert Darnton. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2018] 300 $a xv, 358 pages ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "The publishing industry in France in the years before the Revolution was a lively and sometimes rough-and-tumble affair, as publishers and printers scrambled to deal with (and if possible evade) shifting censorship laws and tax regulations, in order to cater to a reading public's appetite for books of all kinds, from the famous EncyclopeÌdie, repository of reason and knowledge, to scandal-mongering libel and pornography. Historian and librarian Robert Darnton uses his exclusive access to a trove of documents-letters and documents from authors, publishers, printers, paper millers, type founders, ink manufacturers, smugglers, wagon drivers, warehousemen, and accountants-involving a publishing house in the Swiss town of Neuchatel to bring this world to life. Like other places on the periphery of France, Switzerland was a hotbed of piracy, carefully monitoring the demand for certain kinds of books and finding ways of fulfilling it. Focusing in particular on the diary of Jean-François Favarger, a traveling sales rep for a Swiss firm whose 1778 voyage, on horseback and on foot, around France to visit bookstores and renew accounts forms the spine of this story, Darnton reveals not only how the industry worked and which titles were in greatest demand, but the human scale of its operations. A Literary Tour de France is literally that. Darnton captures the hustle, picaresque comedy, and occasional risk of Favarger's travels in the service of books, and in the process offers an engaging, immersive, and unforgettable narrative of book culture at a critical moment in France's history"-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 8 $a Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Before Balzac -- 1. Our man on Mission -- 2. The View from the Home Office -- 3. Smuggling: Pontarlier -- 4. Sizing up Shops: Lons-le-Saunier -- 5. Selling Books, Collecting Bills: Bourg-en-Bresse -- 6. Entrepreneurs and Buccaneers: Lyon -- 7. Domestic Contraband: Lyon -- 8. The Trade in Trading: Avignon -- 9. The Struggle for Survival in the South: NiÌmes, Montpellier, Marseille -- 10. Hard Scrabble in the Southwest: PeÌzeÌnas to Poitiers -- 11. Peddling and the Capillary System: Loudun -- 12. Upmarket and Downmarket in France's Homeland: Saumur to Dijon -- 13. An Ultimate Example: Besançon -- 14. The End of the Line: An Overview of the Demand for Literature -- 15. Lived Literature -- Acknowledgments. 600 10 $a Favarger, Jean-François $x Travel $z France. 610 20 $a SocieÌteÌ typographique de NeuchaÌtel $x History. 650 0 $a Book industries and trade $z France $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Booksellers and bookselling $z France $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Books and reading $z France $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Book industries and trade $z Europe $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Traveling sales personnel $z Switzerland $v Biography. 650 0 $a Publishers and publishing $z NeuchaÌtel $z NeuchaÌtel $x History $y 18th century. 941 $a 3 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20181116023018.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006115203.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20180403021416.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DDF45A6C370411E887D7D95B97128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search