In search of enlightenment : from mapping books to cultural history

This chapter appeared originally in the special issue, “The Digital Turn,” of the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 13, no. 4 (2013): 3-28, doi: https://doi.org/10.1353/jem.2013.0042. It is reprinted here with permission of the University of Pennsylvania Press. The work it describes is an output from the British Arts and Huminites Research Council (AHRC) grant project The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe, 1769-1794 (FBTEE). References to major related publications since 2013 have been added and the text has been expanded, clarified, and updated with reference to subsequent developments in the project it describes