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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821444603321

Autore

Lyons Martyn

Titolo

Reading culture and writing practices in nineteenth-century France / / Martyn Lyons

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2008

©2008

ISBN

1-4426-9203-0

1-4426-8894-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (263 p.)

Collana

Studies in Book and Print Culture

Disciplina

028/.9094409034

Soggetti

Books and reading - France - History - 19th century

Written communication - France - History - 19th century

Book industries and trade - France - History - 19th century

Social change - France - History - 19th century

History

Electronic books.

France

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction: The Importance of the Nineteenth Century Statistical Approach -- 2. In Search of the Bestsellers of Nineteenth-Century France, 1815-1850 -- 3. Towards a National Literary Culture in France: Bookshops and the Decline of the Colporteur Censorship and Commemoration -- 4. Fires of Expiation: Book-Burnings and Catholic Missions in Restoration France -- 5. Literary Commemoration and the Uses of History: The Gutenberg Festival in Strasbourg, 1840 Readers -- 6. Reading Experience of Worker-Autobiographers in Nineteenth-Century Europe -- 7. Oral Culture and the Rural Community: The Veillee d'hiver -- 8. Why We Need an Oral History of Reading Writers -- 9. Reading Practices, Writing Practices: Intimate Writings in Nineteenth-Century France -- 10. French Soldiers and Their Correspondence: Towards a History of Writing Practices in the First World War -- App. Calculating Bestsellers in Early Nineteenth-Century France.



Sommario/riassunto

Featuring original and intriguing insights as well as references to material hitherto inaccessible to English readers, this study presents a form of 'history from below' with emphasis on the individual reader and writer, and his or her experiences and perceptions.