| Description |
1 online resource (373 pages) |
| Series |
Princeton Legacy Library |
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Princeton legacy library.
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| Contents |
Cover; Introduction; Part I: The Historical Context; Part II: Historical Interpretive Practices: The Art of Reading; Part III: Historical Interpretive Practices: The Act of Reading |
| Summary |
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 pu |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Books and reading -- France -- History -- 19th century
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Books and reading -- France -- History -- 20th century
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HISTORY -- Europe -- France.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Books & Reading.
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Books and reading
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Intellectual life
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| SUBJECT |
France -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051442
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France -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051441
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| Subject |
France
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781400862313 |
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1400862310 |
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