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UNIVERSITY
OF LONDON The First John Coffin Memorial Lecture in the History of the Book by Professor
Robert Darnton, "The Devil in the Holy Water, or The Art and Politics of Slander in Paris and London, 1771-1794".
12 July 2004 at 6.30pm |
Robert Darnton is a professor of history at Princeton University and is the immediate past-president of the American Historical Association. He is the author, most recently, of The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France (W.W. Norton, 1995). A volume of essays about his work, The Darnton Debate: Books and Revolution in the Eighteenth Century, edited by Haydn T. Mason, was published last year by the Voltaire Foundation at the University of Oxford.
Event to take place in the Beveridge Hall, Senate House, Malet Street, London,
WC1E 7HU, and will be followed by a wine reception.
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For more information please contact:
Joanne Grubb, Institute of English
Studies, School of Advanced Study, Senate House (3rd Floor), Malet
Street, London, WC1E 7HU
tel: 020 7862 8675; fax: 020 7862 8720
email ies@sas.ac.uk
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