Author: Allen, James Smith
Title: In the Public Eye: A History of Reading in Modern France, 1800-1940
Description: Princeton, Princeton University Press, (1991). orig.cloth. 24x16cm, xv,356 pp. Textual illustrations,tables. Slight binding corner bump, minor rubbing, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: The Historical Context: The Printed Word; A Literate Society; The Politics of Reception; Cultural Mentalities; Historical Interpretive Practices: The Art of Reading: Artistic Images; In the Novel; Journals & Memoirs; The Act of Reading: From Noble Sentiment to Personal Sensibility; Responses to Genre; Reading the Novel, Conclusion; Appendices.

Keywords: French Literary History, France, Reading, Readers, Historical, Sociology, Criticism, Literature, Social