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Author_Christopher Prendergast
Cabinets De Lecture
Capital Punishment
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Chambre De Commerce
classes
collective authorship theory
Compagnon Du Tour De France
dangereuses
debats
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Dim
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eugene
Follow
French social history literature
Held
journal
La Ruche Populaire
Le Bon
Le Compagnon Du Tour De
Le Juif Errant
Le Populaire
les
Les Trois Mousquetaires
mysteres
Mysteres De Paris
nineteenth-century literary sociology
Palais De Justice
paris
Pas Tel
Paul Nizan
popular readership studies
Qui
Qui Ne
reader response criticism
serial fiction analysis
sociology of popular literature production
Spokesman
sue
Superimposed
Vice Versa
Working Class Opinion
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781900755894
- Weight: 249g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 2003
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Eugene Sue (1804-57), like his contemporary Alexandre Dumas pere, was one of the most successful writers of his time. Les Mysteres de Paris, the novel for which he is most remembered, became a publishing sensation. In its serial form, it took the public by storm - readers fought for copies of the next instalment - and in book form its print-run reached an unprecedented 60,000. Christopher Prendergast's study engages with the problematic of emerging forms of popular literature on the basis of a specific hypothesis: that Les Mysteres de Paris, written and published in serial form, was, through the pressure of Sue's reader-correspondents (many of them barely literate), a collective production, 'written by the people for the people'. Prendergast examines the phenomenon of popular literature and reader response in the nineteenth century to illuminate larger issues in the sociology of literature.
Christopher Prendergast is Professor of Modern French Literature at the University of Cambridge, a Fellow of King's College and a Fellow of the British Academy. He has published on nineteenth-century literature, art history, cultural theory and history, and is the general editor of the new Penguin translation of Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu.
