The Cultural Uses of Print in Early Modern France / / Roger Chartier.

The first book-length presentation of Roger Chartier's work in English, this volume provides a vivid example of the new directions of cultural history in France. These essays probe the impact of printing on all social classes of the ancien regime and reveal the surprising range of ways in which...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 5303
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Physical Description:1 online resource (376 p.) :; 19 halftones.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1. Ritual and Print. Discipline and Invention: The Fete in France from the Middle Ages to the Revolution
  • 2. Texts and Images. The Arts of Dying, 1450-1600
  • 3. From Texts to Manners. A Concept and Its Books: Civilité between Aristocratic Distinction and Popular Appropriation
  • 4. From Words to Texts. The Cahiers de doléances of 1789
  • 5. Publishing Strategies and What the People Read, 1530-1660
  • 6. Urban Reading Practices, 1660-1780
  • 7. The Bibliothèque bleue and Popular Reading
  • 8. The Literature of Roguery in the Bibliothèque bleue
  • CONCLUSION
  • INDEX OF NAMES