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The Cultural Uses of Print in Early Modern France (Hardcover)
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The Cultural Uses of Print in Early Modern France (Hardcover)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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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 texts and pictures were used by
audiences with different levels of literacy. Professor Chartier
demonstrates that those who attempted to regulate behavior and
thought on behalf of church or state, for example, were well aware
of the wide influence of the printed word. He finds fascinating
evidence of fundamental processes of social control in texts such
as the guides to a good death or the treatises on norms of
civility, rules that originated at court but that were eventually
appropriated in various forms by society as a whole. Essays on the
evolution on the fete, on the cahiers de doleances of 1789, and on
the early paperback genre known as the Bibliotheque bleue complete
the picture of what people read and why and of what was published
and what influenced the publishers. These essays offer a critical
reappraisal of the complex connections between the new culture of
print and the oral and ritual-oriented forms of traditional
culture. The reader will discover essential patterns of the
cultural evolution of France from the sixteenth to the eighteenth
centuries. Roger Chartier is Director of Studies, Ecole des Hautes
Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Originally published in 1988.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books
while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase
access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of
books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in
1905.
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