In the Public Eye: A History of Reading in Modern France, 1800-1940

James Smith Allen

In the Public Eye: A History of Reading in Modern France, 1800-1940
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Country
United States
Published
28 June 2016
Pages
374
ISBN
9780691633367

In the Public Eye: A History of Reading in Modern France, 1800-1940

James Smith Allen

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 anothe

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