Dr. Robert Darnton
Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor, Emeritus, Harvard University.
University Librarian, Emeritus, Harvard University.
e-mail: robert_darnton@harvard.edu
webpage: http://www.robertdarnton.org/
Some recent publications
- Darnton, R. (2014).
Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature. W. W. Norton.
- Darnton, R. (2010).
The Devil in the Holy Water or the Art of Slander in France from Louis XIV to Napoleon. University of Pennsylvania Press.
- Darnton, R. (2010).
Poetry and the Police: Communication Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris. Harvard University Press.
Texts to download
- Darnton, R. (2015).
“The Demand for Literature in France, 1769– 1789, and the Launching of a Digital Archive”. The Journal of Modern History, vol. 87, no. 3, pp. 509–531.
- Darnton, R. (2013).
“Blogging, Now and Then (250 Years Ago)”. European Romantic Review, 2013 vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 255–270.
- Darnton, R. (2012).
“Digitize, Democratize: Libraries and the Future of Books”. Columbia Journal of Law & The Arts, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 1-19.
- Darnton, R. (2007).
“What is the history of books? Revisited”. Modern Intellectual History, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 495-508.
- Darnton, R. (1982).
“Work and Culture in an Eighteenth-Century Printing Shop”. The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 34-47.
- Darnton, R. (1982).
“What is the History of Books?”. Daedalus, vol. 111, no. 3, pp. 65-83.
- Darnton, R. (1973).
“The Encyclopedie Wars of Prerevolutionary France”. The American Historical Review, vol. 78, no. 5, pp. 1331-1352.