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Readers and Society in Nineteenth-Century France: Workers, Women, Peasants

Martyn Lyons

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Description: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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Readers and Society in Nineteenth-Century France: Workers, Women, Peasants. To get started finding Readers and Society in Nineteenth-Century France: Workers, Women, Peasants, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 220

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan

Release: 2014

ISBN: 0230287808

Description: 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Readers and Society in Nineteenth-Century France: Workers, Women, Peasants. To get started finding Readers and Society in Nineteenth-Century France: Workers, Women, Peasants, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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