Readers and society in nineteenth-century France : workers, women, peasants / Martyn Lyons.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lyons, Martyn.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Books and reading--Political aspects--France--History--19th century.

Books and reading.

Books and reading--Social aspects--France--History--19th century.

Working class--Books and reading--France--History--19th century.

Working class.

Working class--Books and reading.

Books and reading--Social aspects.

History.

Books and reading--Political aspects.

France.

Women--Books and reading--France--History--19th century.

Women.

Women--Books and reading.

France--Intellectual life--19th century.

Intellectual life.

France--Social conditions--19th century.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

xi, 208 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave, 2001.

Summary:

In the 19th 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. Martyn Lyons focuses on workers, women, and peasants, and the ways in which their reading was constructed as a social and political problem, to analyze the fear of reading in 19th Century France. He presents 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-201) and index.

ISBN:

0333921267

OCLC:

46812064