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In the Public Eye

- A History of Reading in Modern France, 1800-1940

About In the Public Eye

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 anothe

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  • Language:
  • English
  • ISBN:
  • 9780691604190
  • Binding:
  • Paperback
  • Pages:
  • 374
  • Published:
  • July 13, 2014
  • Dimensions:
  • 152x229x20 mm.
  • Weight:
  • 510 g.
Delivery: 2-4 weeks
Expected delivery: December 12, 2024

Description of In the Public Eye

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 anothe

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