Author : M. Lyons
Release : 2001-07-24
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 265/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Readers and Society in Nineteenth-Century France by : M. Lyons
Download or read book Readers and Society in Nineteenth-Century France written by M. Lyons. This book was released on 2001-07-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.