[PDF.40ls] The Devil in the Holy Water, or the Art of Slander from Louis XIV to Napoleon (Material Texts)

The Devil in the Holy Water, or the Art of Slander from Louis XIV to Napoleon (Material Texts)

[PDF.xj26] The Devil in the Holy Water, or the Art of Slander from Louis XIV to Napoleon (Material Texts)

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 | #2142822 in Books |  University of Pennsylvania Press |  2009-10-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.48 x1.59 x6.40l,2.32 | File type: PDF | 552 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Journeyman|By S. Matthews|This was OK, but has to rank as a disappointment in the end. I expected a bit more than this sort of journeyman effort from a historian of Darnton's calibre, working with materials this promising.

For a start, it is really about a third too long - you can make out a tight three hundred page book struggling under the the four hundred and fort|From Publishers Weekly|In this complement to his NBCC award–winning Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France, Harvard librarian Darnton chronicles in scholarly detail (with 74 pages of notes) and well-selected illustrations the role of lib

Slander has always been a nasty business, Robert Darnton notes, but that is no reason to consider it a topic unworthy of inquiry. By destroying reputations, it has often helped to delegitimize regimes and bring down governments. Nowhere has this been more the case than in eighteenth-century France, when a ragtag group of literary libelers flooded the market with works that purported to expose the wicked behavior of the great. Salacious or seditious, outrageous or hila...

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