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Robert Darnton
The Literary Underground of the Old Regime
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985

Historical dissident literary and artistic movements that have had an impact on the political realm are worth studying. One such example is the literary underground in pre-Revolutionary France. In The Literary Underground of the Old Regime, historian Robert Darnton advances the thesis that dissident writers and publishers played an important role in undermining the ancien regime.