The Great Cat Massacre and Other Essays
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The Great Cat Massacre and Other Essays by Robert Darnton
When the apprentices of a Paris printing shop in the 1730s held a series of mock trials and then hanged all the cats they could lay their hands on, why did they find it so hilariously funny that they choked with laughter when they reenacted it in pantomime some twenty times? Why in the eighteenth-century version of Little Red Riding Hood did the wolf eat the child at the end? What did the anonymous townsman of Montpelier have in mind when he kept an exhaustive dossier on all the activities of his native city? These are some of the provocative questions Robert Darnton answers in this classic work of European history in what we like to call The Age of Enlightenment.
Robert Darnton est specialiste des Lumieres europeennes et de l'histoire du livre sous l'Ancien Regime. Diplome de Harvard en 1960 et d'Oxford en 1964, il a ete president de l'American Historical Association, et professeur a l'Universite de Princeton, ou il enseigne depuis 1968. Il y a dirige a partir de 2002 le Centre pour l'etude du livre et des medias et a fonde le Gutenberg-e Program. Parmi ses publications recemment traduites en francais, on compte Edition et Sedition (Gallimard, NRF Essais, 1991), Boheme litteraire et Revolution: Le monde des livres au XVIIIe siecle (Gallimard, Tel, 2010) ainsi que Le Diable dans un benitier: L'art de la calomnie en France, 1650-1800 (Gallimard, NRF Essais, 2010).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780394729275 |
| ISBN 10 | 0394729277 |
| Title | The Great Cat Massacre and Other Essays |
| Author | Robert Darnton |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 1985-02-12 |
| Number of pages | 298 |
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