Mark Curran
Mark Curran is Munby Fellow in Bibliography at the University of Cambridge. He is interested in the Enlightenment, book history and digital humanities. His debut academic article, ‘Mettons toujours Londres’, which describes a Christian Enlightenment in eighteenth-century Europe, won the French History Article Prize for 2010. The monograph that it draws upon, ‘Atheism, Religion and Enlightenment in pre-Revolutionary Europe’, is published in the Royal Historical Society (RHS) ‘Studies in History’ series. Before arriving in Cambridge, he had been based in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, working on the path breaking AHRC funded ‘French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe’ project.
20 March 2019
One of the Société typographique de Neuchâtel’s first projects was a reduced cost edition of Charles-Joseph Panckoucke’s 30-volume quarto Le Grand Vocabulaire...
26 February 2019
While Neuchâtel’s publishers counterfeited many editions, they were not immune from having their own original editions ripped-off elsewhere. The Le Locle bookseller Samuel...
Beyond the Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France
18 April 2013
I am pleased to be able to announce that the first major peer-reviewed article output of the French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe (FBTEE) database project – Mark Curran,...
25 June 2012
Simon Burrows and Mark Curran are pleased to announce the on-line publication of the French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe database at: http://chop.leeds.ac.uk/stn/ A major resource...