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Poetry and the Police: Communication Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris
by Darnton, Robert
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Cambridge (Mass.): Belknap Harvard Press, 2010. 1st edition. As New. small octavo. hardback with dust jacket vi + 224pp., b/w plates, notes, index, ÔIn spring 1749, Francois Bonis, a medical student in Paris, found himself unexpectedly hauled off to the Bastille for distributing an "abominable poem about the king." So began the Affair of the Fourteen, a police crackdown on ordinary citizens for unauthorised poetry recitals. Why was the official response to these poems so intense? In this captivating book, Robert Darnton follows the poems as they passed through several media: copied on scraps of paper, dictated from one person to another, memorised and declaimed to an audience. But the most effective dispersal occurred through music, when poems were sung to familiar tunes. Lyrics often referred to current events or revealed popular attitudes toward the royal court. The songs provided a running commentary on public affairs, and Darnton brilliantly traces how the lyrics fit into song cycles that carried messages through the streets of Paris during a period of rising discontentÕ
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- Title
- Poetry and the Police: Communication Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris
- Author
- Darnton, Robert
- Book Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Belknap Harvard Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge (Mass.)
- Date Published
- 2010
- Size
- small octavo
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