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In the Public Eye: A History of Reading in Modern France, 1800-1940
By (Author) James Smith Allen
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
028.90944
Hardback
374
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
680g
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
Finalist for the 1993 Pinkney Prize, Society for French Historical Studies