Readers and society in nineteenth-century France
Subtitle: workers, women, peasants
By: Martyn Lyons.
Publisher: Palgrave
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Books and reading -- Political aspects -- France -- History -- 19th century; Books and reading -- Social aspects -- France -- History -- 19th century; Working class -- Books and reading -- France -- History -- 19th century; Women -- Books and reading -- France -- History -- 19th century; France -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-201)  and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Chapter 1 The New Readers of Nineteenth-Century France; title: The expansion of the reading public; title: The fear of reading; title: Chapter 2 Reading Workers: Libraries for the People; title: Bons livres, mauvais livres: the Catholic fear; title: of reading; title: Workers' education and self-help, 1830-51; title: The Franklin Society and popular libraries; title: Bibliotheques d'entreprises and the Ligue de; title: l'Enseignement; title: Conclusion; title: Chapter 3 Reading Workers: Improvisation and Resistance; title: Conventional readers and working-class; title: acculturation; title: The Pursuit of Knowledge under Difficulties; title: The uses and abuses of fiction; title: Workers' libraries; title: Workers as writers; title: Working-class intellectuals as cultural; title: intermediaries; title: Chapter 4 Reading Women: from Emma Bovary to the; title: New Woman; title: Women as novel readers; title: The dangers of 'bovarysme'; title: The Catholic reading model; title: The feminist reading model; title: Chapter 5 Reading Women: Defining a Space of Her Own; title: The Catholic reader; title: A female style of reading?; title: Illicit and interstitial reading; title: A space of her own: the problems of a; title: fille savante; title: v; title: Chapter 6 Reading Peasants: the Pragmatic Uses of the; title: Written Word; title: Peasants on the margins of book culture; title: Rural readers confront the world of print; title: and writing; title: Attempts to control peasant reading and; title: the questionnaire of 1866; title: From the 1880s to 1918: Peasant readers; title: make independent use of the medium; title: Conclusion; title: Chapter 7 Reading Classes and Dangerous Classes; title: APPENDIX A Popular Uses of the Book in Early; title: Twentieth-Century France; title: APPENDIX B Thirty Works for Peasant Readers; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.