Author: Lucian W. Minor
Publisher: Popular Press 1
Keywords: influence, artistic, political, literature, popular, hackwriter, french, militant
Number of Pages: 177
Published: 1975-01-01
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0879721057
ISBN-13: 9780879721053

While Louis XVIII, Charles X, and Louis Philippe ruled in France, a vast majority of politically unenfranchised Frenchmen were developing their own subculture. Only recently literate, they fashioned their own literature. It consisted of two important genres: the popular novel and the melodrama. As we trace these genres from the turn of the nineteenth century until that moment of February 25, 1848, when the Second Republic was declared, we are also led to a detailed scrutiny of the injustices which the immense majority of the French suffered and of the political causes they espoused. The succe