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In the Public Eye: A History of Reading in Modern France, 1800-1940
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Full Title:
In the Public Eye: A History of Reading in Modern France, 1800-1940
Contributors:
By (Author) James Smith Allen
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
23rd September 2014
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Dewey:
028.90944
Prizes:
Commended for David Pinkney Prize 1993
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
374
Dimensions:
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
Weight:
510g
Description
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
Reviews
Finalist for the 1993 Pinkney Prize, Society for French Historical Studies
