Author Chartier, Roger, 1945-

Title The cultural uses of print in early modern France / Roger Chartier ; translated by Lydia G. Cochrane.

Imprint Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1987.
Location Call Number Status
 Monograph Collection  Z1003.5.F7 C47 1987  AVAILABLE
Description xi, 354 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographies and index.
Contents Ritual and print. discipline and invention: the fete in France from the Middle Ages to the Revolution -- Texts and images. the arts of dying, 1450-1600 -- From texts to manners. a concept and its books: Civilite between aristocratic distinction and popular appropriation -- From words to texts. the Cahiers de doleances of 1789 -- Publishing strategies and what the people read, 1530-1660 -- Urban reading practices, 1660-1780 -- The Bibliotheque bleue and popular reading -- The literature of roguery in the Bibliotheque bleue.
Subject(s) Books and reading -- France -- History -- 18th century.
Books and reading -- France -- History -- 17th century.
Books and reading -- France -- History -- 16th century.
Popular literature -- France -- History and criticism.
Printing -- France -- History.
France -- Intellectual life.
Popular culture -- France.
France -- Imprints.