For the People, by the People?
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For the People, by the People?

Eugene Sue's "Les Mysteres De Paris" - A Hypothesis in the Sociology of Literature

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For the People, by the People?

Eugene Sue's "Les Mysteres De Paris" - A Hypothesis in the Sociology of Literature

About this book

"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."

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Index

Adorno, Theodor 7 n. 17
adventure 129
agency 15, 16, 18, 116
Agulhon, Maurice 7 n. 17, 11 n. 25, 87, 88 n. 54
Allen Smith, James 38 n. 27, 75 n. 17, 81 n. 31, 87 n. 49
Anderson, Benedict 93
Anderson, Perry 126 n. 13
Arnold, Matthew 9
artisan 4 n. 9, 14, 17, 27, 41, 49, 63, 74, 75, 81, 90, 94, 96, 107, 116, 118 n. 50
L'Artisan 5 n. 11, 93, 95, 111
L'Atelier 8, 19, 53, 54, 57, 80, 84, 95, 97, 103, 106-19, 120, 121, and n. 3, 123
Babeuf, François-Emile 5 n. 11
Balzac, Honoré de 21, 24, 56, 77, 81, 82, 84
barbarian 23-4, 26, 27, 31, 116
Barbey d'Aurevilly, Jules 67 n. 3
Barbier, Frédéric 84 n. 39, 87 n. 52
Barbu, Zev 7, 121-2 n. 5, 126 n. 14
barriĂšre 30, 108, 120, 123
Baudelaire, Charles 101 n. 24
Beauroy, Jacques 4 n. 9
Bellos, David 76 n. 18
Benjamin, Walter 21 and n. 4, 69 n. 5
BenoĂźt, Joseph 87, 88
Bernard, Martin 6
Bernheimer, Charles 26 n. 13, 30 n. 19
Bertrand, Marc 4 n. 4
Bezucha, Robert J. 4 n. 4
bibliothĂšques populaires 80 n. 28
Blanc, Louis 94
book production 76
Bory, Jean-Louis 2 n. 5, 150. 16, 45 n. 10, 72 n. 10, 80 n. 27, 106 n. 35, 125 nn. 10 & 11, 130 n. 24
Brochon, Pierre 125
Brooks, Peter 38 n. 27
Buchez, Philippe 107
Burette, Théodore 13 n. 34
Burke, Peter 92 n. 2
Burzio, Filippo 128
Cabet, Etienne 41 n. 3, 81, 82, 87 and n. 51, 94, 103, 104, 105, 107
cabinets de lecture 2, 11, 69, 79, 80, 81, 87 n. 50, 120-1
café 81, 84, 87
capital punishment 36, 38, 49
carniva...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Prefatory Note
  7. I The Hypothesis
  8. 2 The Novel
  9. 3 The Letters
  10. 4 Reading Public(s)
  11. 5 Reception
  12. 6 Conclusion
  13. Bibliography
  14. Index