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The Ability to Select

The Growth of the Reading Public and the Problem of Literary Socialization in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
  • Joost J. Kloek✝ and Wijnand W. Mijnhardt
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Cultural Participation
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© 1993 John Benjamins Publishing Company

© 1993 John Benjamins Publishing Company

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Foreword vii
  4. Introduction 1
  5. The Benefits of Clergie 13
  6. The Uses of the Past (14th-16th Centuries) 21
  7. Cultural Participation as Stimulated by the Seventeenth-Century Reformed Church 39
  8. The Ability to Select 51
  9. Creating an Instrument of Cultural Transmission 63
  10. Learning over Class 79
  11. The Flaneur and the Production of Culture 109
  12. The Increasing Autonomy of Literary Institutions in Belgium in the Late Nineteenth Century 125
  13. The Public as a Constituent of Poetics 137
  14. Soccer, U.S.A. 149
  15. Reading in Social and Cultural Life 161
  16. Cultural Inequalities in Cross-national Perspective 173
  17. The Gentrification of a Rearguard 193
  18. The Text-analytical Study of Art Criticism 217
  19. Culture as a Network of Socially Constructed Realities 227
  20. Contributors 251
  21. Index 255
https://doi.org/10.1075/upal.31.06klo

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Foreword vii
  4. Introduction 1
  5. The Benefits of Clergie 13
  6. The Uses of the Past (14th-16th Centuries) 21
  7. Cultural Participation as Stimulated by the Seventeenth-Century Reformed Church 39
  8. The Ability to Select 51
  9. Creating an Instrument of Cultural Transmission 63
  10. Learning over Class 79
  11. The Flaneur and the Production of Culture 109
  12. The Increasing Autonomy of Literary Institutions in Belgium in the Late Nineteenth Century 125
  13. The Public as a Constituent of Poetics 137
  14. Soccer, U.S.A. 149
  15. Reading in Social and Cultural Life 161
  16. Cultural Inequalities in Cross-national Perspective 173
  17. The Gentrification of a Rearguard 193
  18. The Text-analytical Study of Art Criticism 217
  19. Culture as a Network of Socially Constructed Realities 227
  20. Contributors 251
  21. Index 255
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