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Met reg. Study on how and why people did understand texts as they did in modern France. The author discusses printing, publishing, literacy, schooling, criticism and censorship, to study the social, cultural, economic and political forces that shaped French interpretive practice.
Robert Darnton, Roger Chartier, and others have written much on the history of reading in the Old Regime, but this is the first broad study of reading to focus on the period after 1800. How and why did people understand texts as they did in modern France? In answering this quest…