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The Stakes of Enlightenment: Censorship and Communication in Eighteenth-Century France

Eighteenth-Century Studies,

ABSTRACT The book trade in eighteenth-century France is brought into sharper focus in the four bo more ABSTRACT The book trade in eighteenth-century France is brought into sharper focus in the four books reviewed here.

Written by pioneers in the field of French book history Birn, Darnton, and Dawson, and by Darnton’s student Rigogne—well recognized in his own right today—these works stand as a corpus of inquiry that merits collective reflection, particularly in light of the rapidly advancing response of digital humanities projects to the evolving field of the book trade in the work of Simon Burrows and Mark Curran.

(See The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe database [, reviewed by Nancy Vogeley in ECS (): –43]; and Curran, “Beyond the Forbidden Bestsellers of Prerevolutionary France,” The Historical Journal 56 (): 89–) As scholars become incr