Living environments and social classes: Perbosc and the children’s reading in the XIXth century

Authors

  • Marie-Thérèse DUFFAU CNRS

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32112/2174.2464.2019.284

Keywords:

regional languages, Youth, School Libraries, Agricultural groups, Heritage, Social Classes, Reading, Press

Abstract

The XIXth century youth press in France, reflects social issues and the specific problems they raised at a given time along with the question of social promotion and of the barriers raised by an elite to counter equality both in terms of heritage and of the transmission of it. Antonin Perbosc, as a primary school teacher and as a “felibrige” (dedicated to the transmission of Southern France Heritage) planned the creation of reading libraries within the school. In spite of measures in favour of education, barriers remained between social classes. Efforts were carried out to save the heritage, whether linked with regional or financial heritage. The press developed in youth organisations allowed female youth in agricultural regions to form female circles among agricultural hands. World War I is a turning point for this changing society.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Author Biography

Marie-Thérèse DUFFAU, CNRS

Docteur en histoire, Université de Lyon, chargée de recherche CNRS, IHRIM – UMR 5317

Published

2019-05-30

How to Cite

DUFFAU, M.-T. (2019). Living environments and social classes: Perbosc and the children’s reading in the XIXth century. Impossibilia. Revista Internacional De Estudios Literarios, (17), 28–51. https://doi.org/10.32112/2174.2464.2019.284