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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Material TextsPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (393 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812206449
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Books Without Borders in Enlightenment EuropeDDC classification:
  • 381/.45002094409033
LOC classification:
  • Z305 -- .F74 2012eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Note on Terminology and Sources -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Rite of Spring: The Leipzig Easter Fair and the Literary Marketplace -- Chapter 2. Whom to Trust? Insolvent Booksellers and the Problem of Credit -- 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: Translating the Aufklärung -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: This book examines one of the most important axes of the book trade in Enlightenment Europe: the circulation of French books between France and German-speaking Europe. The first detailed study of the Franco-German trade, it shows how book dealers mediated the transmission of literature across the frontiers of nation, language, and culture.
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Cover -- Contents -- Note on Terminology and Sources -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Rite of Spring: The Leipzig Easter Fair and the Literary Marketplace -- Chapter 2. Whom to Trust? Insolvent Booksellers and the Problem of Credit -- 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: Translating the Aufklärung -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- Acknowledgments.

This book examines one of the most important axes of the book trade in Enlightenment Europe: the circulation of French books between France and German-speaking Europe. The first detailed study of the Franco-German trade, it shows how book dealers mediated the transmission of literature across the frontiers of nation, language, and culture.

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