Reading Culture & Writing Practices in Nineteenth-Century France / / Martyn Lyons.

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• VerfasserIn: Lyons, Martyn,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Between about 1830 and the outbreak of the First World War, print culture, reading, and writing transformed cultural life in Western Europe in many significant ways. Book production and consumption increased dramatically, and practices such as letter- and diary-writing were widespread. This study de...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Tables, Maps, Images
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• 1. Introduction: The Importance of the Nineteenth Century
• The 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. The Reading Experience of Worker-Autobiographers in Nineteenth-Century Europe
• 7. Oral Culture and the Rural Community: The Veillée 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
• Appendix: Calculating Bestsellers in Early Nineteenth-Century France
• Notes
• Select Bibliography
• Index