The Washington Post Book World
"Brilliant."
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Time
"Striking, original, and often very clever." -
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Review
"Striking, original and often very clever."-- Time
"Brilliant." -- The Washington Post Book World
"An exercise in culture shock." -- Chronicle of Higher Education
"Robert Darnton has the inquisitiveness of an investigative reporter, the thoroughness of a rigorous scholar and the sensitivity of a novelist." -- Stanley Hoffman, The New Republic
"Brilliant." -- The Washington Post Book World
"An exercise in culture shock." -- Chronicle of Higher Education
"Robert Darnton has the inquisitiveness of an investigative reporter, the thoroughness of a rigorous scholar and the sensitivity of a novelist." -- Stanley Hoffman, The New Republic
Book Description
When the apprentices of a Paris printing shop in the 1730's held a series of mock trials and then hanged all the cats they could lay their hands on, why did they find it so hilariously funny that they choked with laughter when they reenacted it in pantomime some twenty times? Why in the 18th century version of "Little Red Riding Hood" did the wolf eat the child at the end? What did the anonymous townsman of Montpelier have in mind when he kept an exhaustive dossier on all the activities of his native city? These are some of the provocative questions Robert Darnton attempts to answer in this dazzling series of essays that probe the ways of thought in what we like to call "The Age of Enlightenment."
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"Striking, original and often very clever."-- Time
"Brilliant." -- The Washington Post Book World
"An exercise in culture shock." -- Chronicle of Higher Education
"Robert Darnton has the inquisitiveness of an investigative reporter, the thoroughness of a rigorous scholar and the sensitivity of a novelist." -- Stanley Hoffman, The New Republic
