scholarly journals The Demand for Literature in France, 1769–1789, and the Launching of a Digital Archive

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Darnton1

What did the French read on the eve of the Revolution? Daniel Mornet asked this question in a famous article of 1910. Since then, historians have moved on to other ways of understanding the origins of 1789, but Mornet’s question has been left hanging, despite its relevance to recent work in fields such as the history of books and cultural history in general. This essay is intended to provide an answer to Mornet’s question while at the same time introducing an open-access website full of information about the demand for literature and the way the book trade actually operated under the Ancien Régime.

HISTOREIN ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 79
Author(s):  
Costas Gaganakis

<p>This article attempts to chart the “paradigm shift” from social history, dominant until the early 1980s, to new cultural history and the various interpretive trends it engendered in the 1990s and 2000s. The privileged field of investigation is the history of the Protestant Reformation, particularly in its urban aspect. The discussion starts with the publication of Bernd Moeller’s pivotal <em>Reichsstadt und Reformation </em>in the early 1960s – which paved the way for the triumphant invasion of social history in a field previously dominated by ecclesiastical or political historians, and profoundly imbued with doctrinal prerogatives – and culminates in the critical presentation of interpretive trends that appear to dominate in the 2010s, particularly the view and investigation of the Reformation as communication process.</p>


1985 ◽  
Vol 78 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 149-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick J. Lambe

The case of Richard Simon and the suppression of his book, Histoire critique du Vieux Testament in 1678 stands at a point where the interests of both Church and State in maintaining control of the book trade intersected. As such, the case is of interest in two important areas: first, from the point of view of the social and political history of the ancien régime in France, this case exhibits the intense concern for maintenance or extension of the powers of jurisdiction of the authorities which is so characteristic of the reign of Louis XIV. In some instances this preoccupation with autorité and droit led to an unseemly public jockeying for power, and it is interesting to see how the book trade is seen as a vital element in this struggle.


Viatica ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilles BERTRAND ◽  

This article studies the situation of French travellers in Italy during the Revolution and the First Empire. Revolutionary unrest and breaks with the Ancien Régime had a strong impact on the way Europeans travelled during this period. In addition to the nobles and the literate who continued to travel, other members of the population and new travel areas for exploration appeared. According to the Venetian archives dating from 1789 to 1796, Italy, a welcoming land for some, became an experimental field for strategies with political and scientific stakes.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Swagata Sinha Roy ◽  
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Kavitha Subaramaniam ◽  

If one has not read local English novels like The Garden of Evening Mists and The Night Tiger, one would never be able to imagine the wonders of locales depicted in these two books. One of the reasons the authors here want to visit a said destination is because of the way a certain place is pictured in narratives. Tan Twan Eng brings to life the beauty of Japanese gardens in Cameron Highlands, in the backdrop of postWorld War II while Yangsze Choo takes us into several small towns of Kinta Valley in the state of Perak in her beautifully woven tale of the superstitions and beliefs of the local people in Chinese folklore and myth in war torn Malaysia in the 1930s and after. Many of the places mentioned in these two novels should be considered places to visit by tourists local and international. Although these Malaysian novelists live away from Malaysia, they are clearly ambassadors of the Malaysian cultural and regional heritage. In this paper, a few of the places in the novel will be looked at as potential spots for the coming decade. The research questions considered here are i) what can be done to make written narratives the new trend to pave the way for Visit Malaysia destinations? ii) how could these narratives be promoted as guides to the history and culture of Malaysia? The significant destinations and the relevant cultural history of the regions will be discussed in-depth to come to a relevant conclusion.


Author(s):  
Rosana Carvalho Dias Valtão

Este artigo é um recorte dos resultados produzidos por meio da pesquisa de mestrado “Práticas e representações de leitura literária no Ifes/Campus de Alegre: uma história com rosto e voz”. A pesquisa investigou como a leitura literária acontece nessa escola de ensino técnico, mapeando em qual contexto leitor o grupo social dos alunos dessa instituição está inserido, quais são suas práticas e representações de leitura. Para isso, a investigação dialogou com o trabalho do historiador francês Roger Chartier e os princípios epistemológicos da História Cultural, no que se refere à história do livro, da leitura e da literatura. No desenvolvimento do trabalho, foram realizadas pesquisas bibliográfico-documental e de campo, em perspectiva qualitativa, utilizando o método dedutivo. Considerando o princípio de que toda realidade cultural é construída nas relações existentes entre os grupos sociais, constatou-se a existência de uma prática de leitura que se desvencilha do trabalho com leitura de literatura em sala de aula. Foram identificadas, ainda, as modalidades partilhadas de ler das comunidades de leitores presentes no contexto estudado: percebemos que as principais vias de acesso e as formas de aquisição do objeto cultural (livro de literatura) acontecem por meio de empréstimos e trocas entre os próprios alunos e constatamos que seus pares são os principais mediadores da leitura literária existente nesse espaço. Os resultados presentes neste trabalham nos oportunizam pensar em como intervir no contexto de formação do leitor de literatura em uma escola de ensino médio.Palavras-chave: Leitura Literária. Ensino Médio.  Práticas e Representações.Clandestine literary readings in the context of a capixaba technical schoolABSTRACTThis article is a summary of the results produced through the masters research "Practices and representations of literary reading in Ifes / Campus de Alegre: a history with face and voice". The research investigated how the literary reading happens in this technical school, mapping in which reader context the social group of the students of this institution is inserted, what are their practices and representations of reading. To this end, the research was a dialogue with the work of the French historian Roger Chartier and the epistemological principles of Cultural History in the history of books, reading and literature. In the development of the work, bibliographical-documental and field research were carried out, in a qualitative perspective, using the deductive method. Considering the principle that all cultural reality is built in the existing relations between social groups, it was verified the existence of a practice of reading that gets rid of work with reading literature in the classroom. We also identified the shared modalities of reading from the communities of readers present in the context studied: we perceive that the main access routes and the forms of acquisition of the cultural object (literature book) happen through loans and exchanges between the students themselves And we find that their peers are the main mediators of literary reading in this space. The results present in this work allow us to think about how to intervene in the context of the formation of the literary reader in a high school.Keywords: Literary Reading. High school. Practices and Representations.Lecturas literarias clandestinas en el contexto de una escuela técnica capixabaRESUMENEste artículo es un recorte de los resultados producidos por medio de la investigación de maestría "Prácticas y representaciones de lectura literaria en el Ifes / Campus de Alegre: una historia con rostro y voz". La investigación investigó cómo la lectura literaria ocurre en esa escuela de enseñanza técnica, mapeando en qué contexto lector el grupo social de los alumnos de esa institución está inserto, cuáles son sus prácticas y representaciones de lectura. Para ello, la investigación dialogó con el trabajo del historiador francés Roger Chartier y los principios epistemológicos de la Historia Cultural, en lo que se refiere a la historia del libro, de la lectura y de la literatura. En el desarrollo del trabajo, se realizaron investigaciones bibliográficas-documental y de campo, en perspectiva cualitativa, utilizando el método deductivo. Considerando el principio de que toda realidad cultural se construye en las relaciones existentes entre los grupos sociales, se constató la existencia de una práctica de lectura que se desprende del trabajo con lectura de literatura en el aula. Se identificaron, además, las modalidades compartidas de lectura de las comunidades de lectores presentes en el contexto estudiado: percibimos que las principales vías de acceso y las formas de adquisición del objeto cultural (libro de literatura) ocurren por medio de préstamos e intercambios entre los propios alumnos y constatamos que sus pares son los principales mediadores de la lectura literaria existente en ese espacio. Los resultados presentes en este trabajo nos permiten pensar en cómo intervenir en el contexto de formación del lector de literatura en una escuela secundaria.Palabras clave: Lectura Literaria. Enseñanza Media. Prácticas y Representaciones.


Author(s):  
Ken Hirschkop

Linguistic Turns rewrites the intellectual and cultural history of early twentieth-century Europe. In chapters that range over the work of Saussure, Russell, Wittgenstein, Bakhtin, Benjamin, Cassirer, Shklovskii, the Russian Futurists, Ogden and Richards, Sorel, Gramsci, and others, it shows how European intellectuals came to invest ‘language’ with extraordinary force, at a time when the social and political order of the continent was in question. By examining linguistic turns in concert rather than in isolation, Hirschkop changes the way we see them—no longer simply as moves in individual disciplines, but as elements of a larger constellation, held together by common concerns and anxieties. In a series of detailed readings, he reveals how each linguistic turn invested ‘language as such’ with powers that could redeem not just individual disciplines but Europe itself. We see how, in the hands of different writers, language becomes a model of social and political order, a tool guaranteeing analytical precision, a vehicle of dynamic change, a storehouse of mythical collective energy, a template for civil society, and an image of justice itself. By detailing the force linguistic turns attribute to language, and the way in which they contrast ‘language as such’ with actual language, Hirschkop dissects the investments made in words and sentences and the visions behind them. The constellation of linguistic turns is explored as an intellectual event in its own right and as the pursuit of social theory by other means.


Author(s):  
Adrian O'Connor

The conclusion discusses how re-examining the ‘education question’ in Ancien Régime and Revolutionary France offers new insight to the cultural dynamics at work in the political upheavals of late-eighteenth century France. It argues that recognizing the practical nature of many of the debates over education – even into the radical period of the Revolution – helps us to situate revolutionary politics within its historical moment and to better understand how participatory and representative politics were pursued after 1789. The conclusion situates the pursuit of both public instruction and representative government within the broader legacy of the Revolution, a legacy that has shaped modern political culture in lasting and fundamental ways. It also argues that approaching the political and cultural history of revolutionary France through the interplay of ideas about education and practical efforts to establish new institutions (political and pedagogical alike) suggests new ways to think about the relationship between the Enlightenment and the French Revolution and about the legacy of the Revolution for the theory and practice of democratic politics ever since.


2021 ◽  
pp. 095715582110024
Author(s):  
Maximilien Novak

This article outlines the history of the administration in charge of the regulation and control of public opinion during the French Empire. The context of this regulation is delineated by examining how Napoleon intended, as early as the Consulate, to merge the Ancien Regime traditions with the new values of the Revolution. This project acknowledges innovative developments in public opinion management, in the shaping of political legitimacy after 1789. I will examine three unpublished manuscripts produced by this administration in order to illustrate the administrative and political implications of the imperial control of public opinion. In addition, I will analyze the historical issues at stake determined by different figures who played a role in this administration.


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