Literary Underground of the Old Regime

Robert Darnton introduces us to the shadowy world of pirate publishers, garret scribblers, under-the-cloak book peddlers, smugglers, and police spies that composed the literary underground of the Enlightenment. By drawing on an ingenious selection of previously hidden sources, he reveals for the first time the fascinating story of this eighteenth-century counterculture that has virtually disappeared from history.Robert Darnton is the author of 'Literary Underground of the Old Regime', published 1982 under ISBN 9780674536562 and ISBN 0674536568.