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work_qwu7dq3gtrcalppu6cnrmjsaim	N. Kenny	Books in Space and Time: Bibliomania and Early Modern Histories of Learning and "Literature" in France	2000	34	.pdf	application/pdf	14031	866	62	Early modern histories of learning and belles-lettres took authors,works, and (sometimes) editions as their objects. Many were histories of learning, that is, vernacular versions of what was called in Latin historia litteraria, the idea of which had been formulated most famously by Francis Bacon in the early seventeenth century.4 The phrase histoire littéraire, the aristocracy or else from the world of finance and business.9 By contrast, some histories of belles-lettres constructed books instead as transcendent, idealized, and immaterial objects (inhabiting not particular of library and cabinet by histoire littéraire and histories of belles-lettres is In early-eighteenth-century France the library model became associated in new ways with (what was now called) histoire littéraire, by being the extremes of the great library of the legal nobility and the bibliomaniacal cabinet curieux, none, not even those with an affinity to histories of belles-lettres, seek to turn the literal or figurative space of collections into historical narrative, nor even into a repository of old books	./cache/work_qwu7dq3gtrcalppu6cnrmjsaim.pdf	./txt/work_qwu7dq3gtrcalppu6cnrmjsaim.txt