Robert Darnton
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Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library at Harvard. His latest book is George Washington’s False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century. (April 2008)
From the Review
April 3, 2008: Finding a Lost Prince of Bohemia
January 11, 2007: On Clifford Geertz: Field Notes from the Classroom
June 24, 2004: It Happened One Night
A Sentimental Murder: Love and Madness in the Eighteenth Century by John Brewer
The Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Zemon Davis
The Nanjing Massacre: A Japanese Journalist Confronts Japan's National Shame by Katsuichi Honda, edited by Frank Gibney
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang
Martyred Village: Commemorating the 1944 Massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane by Sarah Farmer
Bloody Saturday in the Soviet Union: Novocherkassk, 1962 by Samuel H. Baron
An Ordinary Atrocity: Sharpeville and Its Massacre by Philip Frankel
Testing the New Deal: The General Textile Strike of 1934in the American South by Janet Irons
The Meetinghouse Tragedy: An Episode in the Life of a New England Town by Charles E. Clark
Trials of Intimacy: Love and Loss in the Beecher-Tilton Scandal by Richard Wightman Fox
Walk Towards the Gallows: The Tragedy of Hilda Blake, Hanged 1899 by Reinhold Kramer and Tom Mitchell
The Perreaus and Mrs. Rudd: Forgery and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century London by Donna T. Andrew and Randall McGowen
The Politics of Court Scandal in Early Modern England: News, Culture and the Overbury Affair, 1603–1660 by Alastair Bellany
The Rule of Justice: The People of Chicago versus Zephyr Davis by Elizabeth Dale
A Poisoned Chalice by Jeffrey Freedman
The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction by Linda Gordon
Contesting the New South Order: The 1914–1915 Strike at Atlanta's Fulton Mills by Clifford M. Kuhn
Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland by Jan T. Gross
An Absolute Massacre: The New Orleans Race Riot of July 30, 1866 by James G. Hollandsworth Jr
The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brassillach by Alice Kaplan
The Nanjing Massacre in History and Historiography edited by Joshua A. Fogel
Nanking: Anatomy of an Atrocity by Masahiro Yamamoto
May 29, 2003: The Heresies of Bibliography
Making Meaning: "Printers of the Mind" and Other Essays by D.F. McKenzie, edited by Peter D. McDonald and Michael F. Suarez
Books and Bibliography: Essays in Commemoration of Don McKenzie edited by John Thomson
March 14, 2002: 'The Great Book Massacre': An Exchange
February 28, 2002: Euro State of Mind
October 18, 2001: 'Scare Tactics' (letter)
April 26, 2001: The Great Book Massacre
Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper Nicholson Baker
April 12, 2001: Un-British Activities
December 21, 2000: Extraordinary Commonplaces
Reading Revolutions: The Politics of Reading in Early Modern England by Kevin Sharpe
Geoffrey Madan's Notebooks edited by J.A. Gere, edited by John Sparrow
June 29, 2000: Paris: The Early Internet
February 10, 2000: Looking the Devil in the Face
A Taste for Freedom: The Life of Astolphe de Custine by Anka Muhlstein, Translated from the French by Teresa Waugh
March 18, 1999: The New Age of the Book
January 14, 1999: The Real Marquis
At Home with the Marquis de Sade: A Life by Francine du Plessix Gray
Sade: A Biographical Essay by Laurence L. Bongie
June 26, 1997: Free Spirit
The Sense of Reality: Studies in Ideas and Their History by Sir Isaiah Berlin, edited by Henry Hardy, with an introduction by Patrick Gardiner
March 27, 1997: George Washington's False Teeth
June 6, 1996: How to Read a Book
Forms and Meanings: Texts, Performances, and Audiences from Codex to Computer by Roger Chartier
Shakespeare, the King's Playwright: Theater and the Stuart Court, 1603-1613 by Alvin Kernan
August 10, 1995: Cherchez la Femme
Monsieur d'Eon Is a Woman: A Tale of Political Intrigue and Sexual Masquerade by Gary Kates
December 22, 1994: Sex for Thought
L'Enfer de la Bibliothèque Nationale Fayard
Romans libertins du XVIIIe siècle edited by Raymond Trousson
Ces Livres qu'on ne lit que d'une main: Lecture et lecteurs de livres pornographiques au XVIIIe siècle by Jean Marie Goulemot
Vol. 1: Oeuvres érotiques de Mirabeau: (HIC-ETHAEC) ou l'Elève des Révérends Pères Jésuites d'Avignon Le Rideau levé ou l'éducation de Laure Ma Conversion ou le libertin de qualité L'Abbé IL-ET-ELLE
Vol. 2: Oeuvres érotiques de Restif de la Bretonne: règlement pour les prostituées L'Anti-Justine ou les délices de l'amour Dom Bougre aux Etats-Généraux ou doléances du Portier des Chartreux Les Revies, histories refaites sous une autre hypothèse du coeur humain dévoilé Le Pornographe ou idées d'un honnête homme sur un project de
Vol. 3: Oeuvres anonymes du XVIIIe siècle (I): lui-mêmeMémoires du Suzon, soeur de D.. B.., portier des Chartreux, écrits par elle-même Histoire de Marguerite, fille du Suzon, nièce de D** B*****, La Cauchoise ou mémoires d'une courtisane célèbre Histoire de Dom B…, portier des Chartreux, écrite par
Vol. 4: Oeuvres anonymes du XVIIIe siècle (II): d'Eulalie, ou tableau du libertinage de Paris Lucette ou les progrès du libertinage La courtisane anaphrodite ou la pucelle libertine Correspondance
Vol. 5: Oeuvres anonymes du XVIIIe siècle (III): du Père Dirrag et de Mademoiselle Eradice Le Triomphe des religieuses ou les nonnes babillardes Lettres galantes et philosophiques de deux nonnes La Messaline française ou les nuits de la duchesse de Pol… et aventures mystérieuses de la princesse d'H… et de la… La Liberté ou Mlle Raucour Les Quarante Manières de foutre, dédiées au clergé de France Thérèse philosophe ou mémoires pour servir à l'histoire
Vol. 6: Oeuvres anonymes du XVIIIe siècle (IV): célèbre libertine Décrets des sens sanctionnés par la volupté Requête et décret en faveur des putains, des fouteuses, des maquerelles et des branleuses contre les bougres, les bardaches et les brûleurs de paillasses Ordonnance de police de Messieurs les officiers et gouverneurs du Palais Royal Le Degré des âges du plaisir ou jouissances voluptueuses de deux personnes de sexes différents, aux différentes époques de la vie Eléonore ou l'heureuse personne Vénus en rut ou vie d'une
Vol. 7: Oeuvres érotiques du XVIIe siècle: des dames Vénus dans le cloître ou la religieuse en chemise L'Académie des dames Le Rut ou la pudeur éteinte L'Ecole des filles ou la philosophie
October 22, 1992: Reading a Riot
The Vanishing Children of Paris: Rumor and Politics before the French Revolution by Arlette Farge, by Jacques Revel, translated by Claudia Miéville
October 24, 1991: An Enlightened Revolution?
The Cultural Origins of the French Revolution by Roger Chartier, translated by Lydia G. Cochrane
Inventing the French Revolution: Essays on French Political Culture in the Eighteenth Century by Keith Michael Baker
May 16, 1991: The Good Old Days
January 19, 1989: What Was Revolutionary about the French Revolution?
October 27, 1988: A Star Is Born
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Transparency and Obstruction by Jean Starobinski, translated by Arthur Goldhammer, with an introduction by Robert J. Morrissey
October 9, 1986: Pop Foucaultism
Damning the Innocent: A History of the Persecution of the Impotent in Pre-Revolutionary France by Pierre Darmon, translated by Paul Keegan
January 31, 1985: Revolution sans Revolutionaries
Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution by Lynn Hunt
June 28, 1984: Working-Class Casanova
Will & Circumstance: Montesquieu, Rousseau and the French Revolution by Norman Hampson
Journal de ma vie: Jacques-Louis Ménétra, compagnon vitrier au 18e siècle edited by Daniel Roche
May 10, 1984: An Exchange on Mother Goose
February 16, 1984: Danton and Double-Entendre
Danton written by Jean-Claude Carrière, directed by Andrzej Wajda
February 2, 1984: The Meaning of Mother Goose
May 13, 1982: The Art of Dying
Death and the Enlightenment: Changing Attitudes to Death among Christians and Unbelievers in Eighteenth-century France by John McManners
October 8, 1981: What the Doctor Ordered (letter)
July 16, 1981: Poland Rewrites History
May 15, 1980: Hunting for Humanity
The Forbidden Experiment: The Story of the Wild Boy of Aveyron by Roger Shattuck
April 3, 1980: What's New About the Old Regime?
The Institutions of France under the Absolute Monarchy 1598-1789: Society and State by Roland E. Mousnier, translated by Brian Pearce
May 31, 1979: The Rise of the Writer
Writer and Public in France: From the Middle Ages to the Present Day by John Lough
Le Siècle des lumières en province: Académies et académiciens provinciaux, 1680-1789 by Daniel Roche
October 2, 1975: Poverty, Crime & Revolution
Laboring Classes and Dangerous Classes in Paris During the First Half of the Nineteenth Century by Louis Chevalier, translated by Frank Jellinek
The Names of Kings: The Parisian Laboring Poor in the Eighteenth Century by Jeffry Kaplow
The French Revolution, 1787-1799: From the Storming of the Bastille to Napoleon by Albert Soboul, translated by Alan Forrest, by Colin Jones
The Poor of Eighteenth-Century France 1750-1789 by Olwen H. Hufton
June 27, 1974: Giving New Life to Death
Piété baroque et déchristianisation en Provence au XVIIIe siècle: Les attitudes devant la mort d'après les clauses des testaments by Michel Vovelle
June 13, 1974: Death's Checkered Past
Western Attitudes toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present by Philippe Ariès, translated by Patricia M. Ranum
April 5, 1973: French History: The Case of the Wandering Eye
Reactions to the French Revolution by Richard Cobb
The Police and the People: French Popular Protest 1789-1820 by Richard Cobb
A Second Identity: Essays on France and French History by Richard Cobb
Crimes et criminalité en France sous I'Ancien Régime, 17e-18e siècles by A. Abbiateci, by F. Billacois, by Y. Bongert, by N. Castan, by Y. Castan, by P. Petrovitch
Les Hommes et la mort en Anjou aux 17e et 18e siècles by François Lebrun
Vision de la mort et de l'au-delà en Provence d'après les autels des âmes du purgatoire, XVe-XXe siècles by Gaby Vovelle, by Michel Vovelle
Books by Robert Darnton
George Washington's False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century (2003)
The Corpus of Clandestine Literature in France, 1769-1789 (1995)
The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France (1995)
Berlin Journal: 1989-1990 (1991)
The Kiss of Lamourette: Reflections in Cultural History (1990)
The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History (1985)
The Literary Underground of the Old Regime (1982)
The Business of Enlightenment: A Publishing History of the Encyclopedie, 775-1800 (1979)
The Widening Circle: Essays on the Circulation of Literature in Eighteenth-Century Europe (1976)