Selling Enlightenment, by Mark Curran, is the first monograph of the French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe (FBTEE) project. It is intended to be a serious contribution to enlightenment studies, digital humanities and the international and cross-cultural history of print. The result of five years of research, it examines the dissemination of books across Europe in the years 1769-1794. It is to be published by Continuum Books.
Table of contents
Introduction: The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe
Chapter one: A Printing Shop Across the Border
— Bookkeeping Made Simple —
Chapter two: The Myth of the Mountain Dwellers
— The Triumph of Benevolence; or, The History of Francis Wills —
Chapter three: The Republic of Books
Chapter four: The Storm Will Pass
— Procès Romanesque —
Chapter five: Selling Enlightenment
Conclusion
Technical Appendix: Decoding and Coding the Enlightenment
