| Titre | L'expansion et la crise de la production littéraire | |
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| Auteur | Christophe Charle | |
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Revue | Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales |
| Numéro | vol. 1, no. 4, 1975 | |
| Page | 44-65 | |
| Résumé anglais |
The expansion and crisis in the literary field between 1865 and 1900 A quantitative study of the literary market in France between 1865 and 1900 has shown a tremendous increase in the number of titles produced, the quantity of best sellers printed, and the size of the reading public. But towards the end of the 1880's and throughout the 1890's, this expansion gave way to a crisis of overproduction. This expansion can be explained by such social transformations related to the industrial revolution such as increased secondary education. The crisis itself is a result of the expansion ; too many intellectuals drawn into this market wrote too many books for the market to absorbe. The reading public ceased to increase at the same high rate. The number of person with secondary education levelled off. While production slowed, the number of writers continued to increase. Since the more lucrative formes (novels and plays) were those in greatest difficulty, the social situation of the writer declined all the more. This crisis accounts for the particular character of the field of literary endeavour during this period : the splintering of groups, the manifestos, the pole mies, the duals, the aberrant strategies, the conversions and reconversions of a religious, literary, political, or social nature, and, during the Dreyfus affair, even the birth of the "intellectual", claiming his own political autonomy. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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