When the apprentices of a Paris printing shop in the 1730s 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 eighteenth-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 answers in this classic work of European history in what we like to call The Age of Enlightenment.”
Author(s): Robert Darnton
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 320
Tags: Антропология;Историческая антропология;
CONTENTS......Page 8
List of Illustrations......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 14
Introduction......Page 18
1. Peasants Tell Tales: The Meaning of Mother Goose......Page 24
2. Workers Revolt: The Great Cat Massacre of the Rue Saint-Séverin......Page 90
3. A Bourgeois Puts His World in Order: The City as a Text......Page 122
4. A Police Inspector Sorts His Files: The Anatomy of the Republic of Letters......Page 160
5. Philosophers Trim the Tree of Knowledge: The Epistemological Strategy of the Encyclopédie......Page 206
6. Readers Respond to Rousseau: The Fabrication of Romantic Sensitivity......Page 230
Conclusion......Page 272
Notes......Page 280
A......Page 300
B......Page 301
C......Page 302
D......Page 303
F......Page 304
G......Page 305
J......Page 306
L......Page 307
M......Page 308
P......Page 309
Q......Page 310
S......Page 311
T......Page 312
Z......Page 313
