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Robert Choate Darnton (born May 10, 1939) is an American
He was director of the
Life
Darnton was born in New York City. He graduated from
Darnton was a trustee of the Oxford University Press from 1994 to 2007. He is a trustee of the New York Public Library, where he designed and helped launch the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.[5]
On July 1, 2007, he transferred to
Darnton is a pioneer in the field of the
Awards and honors
His first major prize was the Leo Gershoy Award for The Business of Enlightenment in 1979. He was later elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1980 and the American Philosophical Society in 1989.[9][10] He has also received the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism for The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France (New York: W.W. Norton, 1996).
In 1996-1997 he held the Lyell Readership in Bibliography.
In 1999, he was named a Chevalier of the
In 2005, he received an award for distinguished achievement from the American Printing History Association.[11]
On February 13, 2012, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal 2011 by President Barack Obama, for his determination to make knowledge accessible to everyone.
In 2013, he was awarded the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca lifetime achievement award by the Institut de France.[12]
Family
His brother is the retired New York Times editor and author John Darnton, and his father was the war correspondent Byron Darnton.
Works
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 George Washington’s False Teeth, August 31, 20031, C-SPAN | |
| Presentation by Darnton on The Case for Books, February 3, 2010, C-SPAN |
- Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 1995 [1968]. ISBN 978-0-674-56950-8.
- The Business of Enlightenment: A Publishing History of the Encyclopédie, 1775–1800. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press. 1987 [1979]. ISBN 978-0-674-08786-6.
- The Literary Underground of the Old Regime. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 1982. ISBN 978-0-674-53656-2.
- ISBN 978-0-465-02700-2.
- Coauthored with ISBN 978-0-520-06430-0.
- The Kiss of Lamourette: Reflections in Cultural History. New York, NY: W. W. Norton. 1990. ISBN 978-0-393-02753-2.
- Edition et sédition. L'univers de la littérature clandestine au XVIIIe siècle (in French). Paris: Gallimard. 1991. ISBN 978-2-07-072212-9.
- Berlin Journal, 1989–1990. New York, NY: W. W. Norton. 1993 [1991]. ISBN 978-0-393-31018-4.
- Gens de lettres, gens du livre (in French). Paris: O. Jacob. 1992. ISBN 978-2-7381-0162-4.
- ISBN 978-0-393-31442-7.
- The Corpus of Clandestine Literature in France, 1769–1789. New York, NY: W. W. Norton. 1995. ISBN 978-0-393-03745-6.
- George Washington's False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century. New York, NY: W. W. Norton. 2003. ISBN 978-0-393-05760-7.
- The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future. New York: NY Public Affairs. 2009. ISBN 978-1-58648-826-0.
- The Devil in the Holy Water, or the Art of Slander from Louis XIV to Napoleon. Philadelphia, PA: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2009. ISBN 978-0-8122-4183-9.
- Poetry and the Police: Communication Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press. 2010. ISBN 978-0-674-05715-9.
- Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature. New York, NY: W. W. Norton. 2014. ISBN 978-0-393-24229-4.
- A Literary Tour de France: The World of Books on the Eve of the French Revolution. Oxford University Press. 2018. ISBN 978-0-19-514451-2. (author website)
- Pirating and Publishing: The Book Trade in the Age of Enlightenment. Oxford University Press. 2021. ISBN 978-0-19-514452-9.
- The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789. W. W. Norton. 2023. ISBN 978-1-32-403558-9.
See also
- History of the book
References
- ^ "Past ISECS Congresses and Presidents - ISECS - International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies - UQTR". oraprdnt.uqtr.uquebec.ca. Retrieved December 21, 2022.
- ^ "ISECS International Seminars for early career scholars". BSECS. Retrieved December 21, 2022.
- ^ "Robert Darnton". Harvard Alumni. Retrieved December 21, 2022.
- ^ Robert Darnton; Liz Townsend; Robert Townsend (2000). "AHA Presidential Addresses: Robert Darnton, 1999". American Historical Association. Retrieved August 3, 2011.
- ^ Taylor, Kate. "Amherst President is Expected to Be Named Chief of the New York Public Library," New York Times. October 6, 2010.
- ^ Albanese, Andrew (May 25, 2007). "Princeton's Robert Darnton To Succeed Verba as Harvard Library Director". Library Journal. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007.
- ^ "Launch of the Digital Public Library of America". Harvard University Press Blog. Retrieved December 21, 2022.
- Harvard Gazette. November 23, 2015. Retrieved March 15, 2019.
- ^ "Robert Choate Darnton". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved April 19, 2022.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved April 19, 2022.
- ^ Books reveal volumes about times past, Jennifer Greenstein Altmann, Princeton Weekly Bulletin, March 28, 2005.
- ^ "Robert Darnton Awarded Prix Mondial Cino Del Duca". Lib.harvard.edu. Harvard University Library. 2013. Retrieved July 23, 2013.
External links
- Author website
- Darnton on the Gutenberg-e Program
- Articles by Robert Darnton from The New York Review of Books
- Robert Darnton, An Early Information Society: News and the Media in Eighteenth-Century Paris, AHA Presidential Address Retrieved April 19, 2010
- Appearances on C-SPAN
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