Abstract
I first began to question prevailing orthodoxies of eighteenth-century book history during my sojorns in Hell. For the uninitiated, Hell (Enfer) was the reading room of the old Bibliotheque nationale de France where scholars consulted banned books. It was there that I first encountered the rare pornographic libelles that luminaries of a previous generation of scholars had suggested ‘desacratized’ or fatally undermined the Ancien Regime monarchy.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Digitizing Enlightenment: Digital Humanities and the Transformation of Eighteenth-Century Studies |
Editors | Simon Burrows, Glenn Roe |
Place of Publication | U.K. |
Publisher | Liverpool University Press |
Pages | 167-194 |
Number of pages | 28 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781789621945 |
Publication status | Published - 2020 |
Keywords
- digital humanities
- book industries and trade
- bibliometrics
- databses