An edition of Readers and society in nineteenth-century France
(2001)
Readers and society in nineteenth-century France
workers, women, peasants
by Martyn Lyons
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Books and reading, History, Intellectual life, Political aspects of Books and reading, Social aspects of Books and reading, Women, Working class, Books and reading, history, France, history, 19th century, France, intellectual life, Political aspects, Social aspects, Social conditionsPlaces
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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: Chapter 1 The New Readers of Nineteenth-Century France
The expansion of the reading public
The fear of reading
Chapter 2 Reading Workers: Libraries for the People
Bons livres, mauvais livres: the Catholic fear
of reading
Workers' education and self-help, 1830-51
The Franklin Society and popular libraries
Bibliotheques d'entreprises and the Ligue de
l'Enseignement
Conclusion
Chapter 3 Reading Workers: Improvisation and Resistance
Conventional readers and working-class
acculturation
The Pursuit of Knowledge under Difficulties
The uses and abuses of fiction
Workers' libraries
Workers as writers
Working-class intellectuals as cultural
intermediaries
Chapter 4 Reading Women: from Emma Bovary to the
New Woman
Women as novel readers
The dangers of 'bovarysme'
The Catholic reading model
The feminist reading model
Chapter 5 Reading Women: Defining a Space of Her Own
The Catholic reader
A female style of reading?
Illicit and interstitial reading
A space of her own: the problems of a
fille savante
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Chapter 6 Reading Peasants: the Pragmatic Uses of the
Written Word
Peasants on the margins of book culture
Rural readers confront the world of print
and writing
Attempts to control peasant reading and
the questionnaire of 1866
From the 1880s to 1918: Peasant readers
make independent use of the medium
Conclusion
Chapter 7 Reading Classes and Dangerous Classes
APPENDIX A Popular Uses of the Book in Early
Twentieth-Century France
APPENDIX B Thirty Works for Peasant Readers
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-201) and index.
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