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...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Allen, James Smith
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Series:Princeton legacy library.
Subjects:
Online Access:CONNECT
CONNECT
CONNECT