In 1789 French revolutionaries initiated a cultural   experiment that   radically transformed the most basic elements of French literary   civilizationauthorship, printing, and publishing. In a panoramic   analysis,   Carla Hesse tells how the Revolution shook the Parisian printing and   publishing   world from top to bottom, liberating the trade from absolutist   institutions and   inaugurating a free-market exchange of ideas.  Historians and literary critics have traditionally viewed the French   Revolution   as a catastrophe for French literary culture.  Combing through extensive   new   archival sources, Hesse finds instead that revolutionaries intentionally   dismantled the elite literary civilization of the Old Regime to create   unprecedented access to the printed word. Exploring the uncharted   terrains of   popular fiction, authors' rights, and literary life under the Terror,   Carla   Hesse offers a new perspective on the relationship between democratic   revolutions and modern cultural life.

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