The Kiss of Lamourette: Reflections in Cultural History

At home in the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries, Robert Darnton is a shrewd and entertaining guide to the shifting borderlands of history and culture. These wide-ranging essays appear under various headings: "Current Events" --this section includes the wonderful story of the moment in 1792 when all the delegates in the French Legislative Assembly kissed each other; "Media," on television, pounding a newspaper beat, and tips to academics on how to get a book published; "The Printed Word," with an essay on the history of books; "The Lay of the Land," on aspects of intellectual history; and "Good Neighbors," on the relation of history to literature anthropology, and the sociology of knowledge.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 08/17/1991
ISBN: 9780393307528
Pages: 416
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.01h x 5.08w x 1.05d