{"product_id":"books-without-borders-in-enlightenment-europe-french-cosmopolitanism-and-german-literary-markets-hardback-9780812243895","title":"Books Without Borders in Enlightenment Europe; French Cosmopolitanism and German Literary Markets (Hardback) 9780812243895","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBooks Without Borders in Enlightenment Europe\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eFrench Cosmopolitanism and German Literary Markets\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJeffrey Freedman (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812243895\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 4 May 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e392 pages, 21 illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3 cm, 0.754 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Carefully reasoned and deeply researched . . . a welcome addition to the study of the myriad ways in which ideas have been carried in print across political, linguistic, and other barriers\" (\u003ci\u003eTLS\u003c\/i\u003e) \"An outstanding, vivid, fine-grained, minutely researched, and highly readable study that makes an indispensable contribution to our knowledge of the diffusion of the Enlightenment.\" (\u003ci\u003eFrench Studies\u003c\/i\u003e) \"Anyone with any knowledge about eighteenth-century literary and cultural history will recognize the importance of this book. A study of this sort has long been needed not simply to extend our understanding of the French book in Germany but also to counterbalance and revise various national 'history of the book' series which focus on the national unit and precisely miss the importance of books as \u003ci\u003elivres sans frontières\u003c\/i\u003e.\" (James Raven, University of Essex)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThough the field of book history has long been divided into discrete national histories, books have seldom been as respectful of national borders as the historians who study them-least of all in the age of Enlightenment when French books reached readers throughout Europe. In this erudite and engagingly written study, Jeffrey Freedman examines one of the most important axes of the transnational book trade in Enlightenment Europe: the circulation of French books between France and the German-speaking lands. Focusing on the critical role of book dealers as cultural intermediaries, he follows French books through each stage of their journey-from the French-language printing shops where they were produced, to the wholesale book fairs in Leipzig, to retail book shops at locations scattered widely throughout Germany. At some of those locations, authorities reacted with alarm to the spread of French books, burning works of the radical French Enlightenment and punishing the booksellers who sold them. But officials had little power to curtail their circulation: the political fragmentation of the German lands made it virtually impossible to police the book trade. Largely unimpeded by censorship, French books circulated more freely in Germany than in the absolutist monarchy of France.\u003cbr\u003e In comparison, the flow of German books into the French market was negligible-an asymmetry that corresponded to the hierarchy of languages in Enlightenment Europe. But publishers in Switzerland produced French translations of German books. By means of title changes, creative editing, and mendacious advertising, the Swiss publishers adapted works of the German Enlightenment for an audience of French-readers that stretched from Dublin to Moscow.\u003cbr\u003e An innovative contribution to both the history of the book and the transnational study of the Enlightenment, Freedman's work tells a story of crucial importance to understanding the circulation of texts in an age in which the concept of World Literature had not yet been invented, but the phenomenon already existed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eNote on Terminology and Sources\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Rite of Spring: The Leipzig Easter Fair and the Literary Marketplace\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Whom to Trust? Insolvent Booksellers and the Problem of Credit\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. French Booksellers in the Reich\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Demand\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. The Word of God in the Age of the \u003ci\u003eEncyclopÉdie\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Against the Current: Translating the \u003ci\u003eAufklÄrung\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. From \u003ci\u003eEurope FranÇaise\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eEurope RÉvolutionnaire\u003c\/i\u003e: The Career of Jean-Guillaume Virchaux\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. What Were French Books Good For?\u003cbr\u003e Appendix A. STN Trade with Booksellers in Germany, 1770-\u003cbr\u003e Appendix B. The Folio Bible of 1773: Diffusion\u003cbr\u003e Appendix C. The Folio Bible of 1779: Prepublication Subscriptions\u003cbr\u003e Appendix D. The Bible in Germany: The NeuchÂtel Folio of 1779 and the Bienne Octavo\u003cbr\u003e Appendix E. Diffusion of \u003ci\u003eSebaldus Nothanker\u003c\/i\u003e in French Translation\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555711283480,"sku":"9780812243895","price":48.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/books-without-borders-in-enlightenment-europe-french-cosmopolitanism-and-german-literary-markets-hardback-9780812243895","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}