276 Pages
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Routledge
276 Pages
by
Routledge
276 Pages
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Routledge
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First Published in 2004. The ideas of the Enlightenment and belligerent royal officials critically influenced the French Revolution, but how did an entire generation learn about such ideas prior to the Revolution? Jack R. Censer’s achievement in this volume is to marshal a vast literature in order to provide a coherent and original interpretation of the role of the French Press in the... Read more
INTRODUCTION: THE PERIODICAL PRESS Part I Content 1 THE POLITICAL PRESS 2 THE AFFICHES 3 THE LITERARY—PHILOSOPHICAL PRESS Part II Milieu 4 EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY JOURNALISM AND ITS PERSONNEL 5 THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT AND THE PERIODICAL 6 THE READERSHIP, CONCLUSION
Biography
Jack R. Censer is Professor of History at George Mason University. His most recent publications include The French Revolution and Intellectual History (1989), and he is series editor of Rewriting Histories.
`Censer's book is a felicitous blend of comprehensive reading of secondary sources and his own research. ... Blending perceptive synthesis and original research, The French Press in the Age of the Enlightenment will instruct and challenge readers for many years to come.' – Harvey Chisick Haifa University
