In the Public Eye : a History of Reading in Modern France, 1800-1940.

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 move...

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Author / Creator: Allen, James Smith.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Series:Princeton legacy library.
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