READERS AND SOCIETY IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE by Martyn Lyons ( 9780333921265 )

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READERS AND SOCIETY IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE
WORKERS, WOMEN, PEASANTS

By:

Martyn Lyons

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Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0333921267

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9780333921265

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Publisher:

PALGRAVE MACMILLAN

Pub. date:

24 July, 2001

Pages:

219

Description:

This study focuses on workers, women and peasants, and the ways in which their reading was constructed as a social and political problem, to analyze the fear of reading in 19th century France. The author presents a series of case studies of actual readers.

Synopsis:

In the nineteenth century, the reading public expanded to embrace new categories of consumers, especially of cheap fiction. These new lower-class and female readers frightened liberals, Catholics and republicans alike. The study focuses on workers, women and peasants, and the ways in which their reading was constructed as a social and political problem, to analyse the fear of reading in nineteenth century France. The author presents a series of case-studies of actual readers, to examine their choices and their practices, and to evaluate how far they responded to (or subverted) attempts at cultural domination.

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