In the public eye: a history of reading in modern France, 1800 - 1940
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Main Author: Allen, James Smith 1949- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, NJ Princeton Univ. Press 2014
Series:Princeton legacy library
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Online Access:DE-1046
DE-1047
Item Description:Cover; Introduction; Part I: The Historical Context; Part II: cHistorical Interpretive Practices: The Art of Reading; Part III: Historical Interpretive Practices: The Act of Reading
Robert Darnton, Roger Chartier, and others have written much on the history of reading in the Old Regime, but this is the first broad study of reading to focus on the period after 1800. How and why did people understand texts as they did in modern France? In answering this question, James Allen moves easily from one interpretive framework to another and draws on a wide range of sources--novels, diaries, censor reports, critical reviews, artistic images, accounts of public and private readings, and the letters that readers sent to authors about their books. As he analyzes reading "in the public eye, " the author explores the formation of "interpretive communities" during the years when reading silently and alone gradually became more common than reading aloud in a group. In the Public Eye discusses printing, publishing, literacy, schooling, criticism, and censorship, to study the social, cultural, economic, and political forces that shaped French interpretive practice. Examining the art and act of reading by different audiences, it discloses the mentalities of literate people for whom few other historical records exist. The book will be essential reading for those interested in modern French history, post-structuralist literary theory and criticism, reader-response theory and criticism, and social and intellectual history in general
Physical Description:373 Seiten
ISBN:9781400862313
1400862310

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