8. The Literature of Roguery in the Bibliothèque bleue

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ix
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
5. INTRODUCTION 1
6. 1. Ritual and Print. Discipline and Invention: The Fete in France from the Middle Ages to the Revolution 13
7. 2. Texts and Images. The Arts of Dying, 1450-1600 32
8. 3. From Texts to Manners. A Concept and Its Books: Civilité between Aristocratic Distinction and Popular Appropriation 71
9. 4. From Words to Texts. The Cahiers de doléances of 1789 110
10. 5. Publishing Strategies and What the People Read, 1530-1660 145
11. 6. Urban Reading Practices, 1660-1780 183
12. 7. The Bibliothèque bleue and Popular Reading 240
13. 8. The Literature of Roguery in the Bibliothèque bleue 265
14. CONCLUSION 343
15. INDEX OF NAMES 349