Books Without Borders in Enlightenment Europe : : French Cosmopolitanism and German Literary Markets / / Jeffrey Freedman.

Though the field of book history has long been divided into discrete national histories, books have seldom been as respectful of national borders as the historians who study them-least of all in the age of Enlightenment when French books reached readers throughout Europe. In this erudite and engagin...

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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012]
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Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (392 p.) :; 21 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Note on Terminology and Sources
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Rite of Spring
  • Chapter 2. Whom to Trust?
  • Chapter 3. French Booksellers in the Reich
  • Chapter 4. Demand
  • Chapter 5. The Word of God in the Age of the Encyclopédie
  • Chapter 6. Against the Current
  • Chapter 7. From Europe Française to Europe Révolutionnaire The Career of Jean- Guillaume Virchaux
  • Conclusion. What Were French Books Good For?
  • Appendix A. STN Trade with Booksellers in Germany, 1770- 1785
  • Appendix B. The Folio Bible of 1773: Diffusion
  • Appendix C. The Folio Bible of 1779: Prepublication Subscriptions
  • Appendix D. The Bible in Germany: The Neuchâtel Folio of 1779 and the Bienne Octavo
  • Appendix E. Diffusion of Sebaldus Nothanker in French Translation
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments