Poetry and the police : communication networks in eighteenth-century Paris / Robert Darnton.

Poetry and the police : communication networks in eighteenth-century Paris / Robert Darnton.

Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, ©2010.

vi, 224 p. : ill. ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Policing a poem
A conundrum
A communication network
Ideological danger?
Court politics
Crime and punishment
A missing dimension
The larger context
Poetry and politics
Song
Music
Chansonniers
Reception
A diagnosis
Public opinion
The songs and poems distributed by the Fourteen
Texts of "Qu'une batarde de catin"
Poetry and the fall of Maurepas
The trail of the Fourteen
The popularity of tunes
An electronic cabaret : Paris street songs, 1748-1750.

United States -- Massachusetts.

DC729 .D37 2010