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Author Burrows, Simon, 1966- author.

Title Enlightenment bestsellers / Simon Burrows
Published London, UK : Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018

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Description 1 online resource
Series The French book trade in Englightenment Europe ; II
French book trade in Englightenment Europe ; 2
Summary This is a rich and path-breaking comparative study of reading tastes in the final years of old regime Europe. Based on extensive research in the account books of the Swiss publishers, the Société Typographique de Neuchâtel (STN), and related archives, it charts the dissemination of literature and reading tastes across Europe in the years leading up to the French revolution. In the process, it recasts our understanding of late 18th-century print culture and the contours of the enlightenment. The fruit of a widely acclaimed five year database project, the STN database, it is also a story of pioneering efforts to apply the latest digital technology and GIS mapping techniques to traditional historical and bibliographic problems.Although written to serve as a standalone study, this book is ideally complemented by its companion volume, Mark Curran's The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe I: Selling Enlightenment, which offers a radical reinterpretation of the structure and practices of the European book trade.The STN database is now recognised as a cutting-edge digital project of global significance. Robert Darnton has called it "a prodigious accomplishment and a joy to use" while Jeremy Popkin adds, "No one working in the field of French Enlightenment studies ... can afford to ignore the rich mine of data that Simon Burrows and his collaborators have made accessible, in an eminently usable form, and the new possibilities it opens up for scholars." The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe I and II offer a roadmap of that data and what it can show us
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 18, 2018)
Subject Société typographique de Neuchâtel.
SUBJECT Société typographique de Neuchâtel fast
Subject Book industries and trade -- Europe -- History -- 18th century
Books and reading -- Europe -- History -- 18th century
Enlightenment -- Europe
French language -- Europe -- History -- 18th century
Best sellers -- Europe -- History -- 18th century
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Commerce.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Marketing -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Sales & Selling -- General.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Publishing.
Best sellers
Book industries and trade
Books and reading
Enlightenment
French language
Intellectual life
SUBJECT Europe -- Intellectual life -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045728
Subject Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781441182173
1441182179