The Culture of the Europeans (Text Only Edition) by Sassoon, Donald -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Dedication Contents Introduction Part I: 1800–1830: The Pre-Conditions

1: Sources of Cultural Expansion 2: Triumphant Languages 3: Publishing 4: Peddling Stories 5: Foundation Stories 6: Fairy Tales 7: Novels 8: Trailblazers 9: Walter Scott ‘in Unclouded Splendour’ 10: Cultural Hegemony 11: This is Not a Fiction 12: News and Pictures 13: The Music Market 14: Audiences and Performers 15: Opera 16: Theatre

Part II: 1830–1880: The Triumph of Bourgeois Culture

17: Books for the People 18: Newspapers, Magazines and Pictures 19: Money Matters 20: Reading by Instalments 21: Repressing Culture 22: Beloved Writers 23: Great Genres 24: Women and Novels 25: Challenging the Trailblazers 26: Improving Oneself 27: Music, Composers and Virtuosi 28: The Triumph of the Opera 29: Theatricals

Part III: 1880–1920: The Revolution

30: The Revolution in Communications 31: Workers, Jews, Women 32: The Internationalisation of the Novel 33: Zola: Money, Fame and Conscience 34: Stories of Crime and Science Fiction 35: Popular Novels, for Young and Old 36: The Popular Press 37: Shows 38: Music 39: Recorded Sound 40: The Moving Image 41: Cinema: Europeans and Americans 42: Cultural Panics

Part IV: 1920–1960: The Interventionist State

43: States and Markets 44: Culture and Communism 45: Fascism 46: Mass Culture: The American Challenge 47: Interwar Cinema 48: The Cinema after World War II 49: More Books 50: Popular Genres: Crimes and the Future 51: The Press 52: Comic Strips 53: Live Spectacles 54: The Triumph of the Song 55: Radio

Part V: After 1960: The Era of the Mass Media

56: Television: The Universal Medium 57: The Flow of Genres on Television 58: The Break-up of Television 59: Going Out: Cinema and Theatre 60: Culture in the ‘Other’ Europe: Communism 61: A World of Readers 62: Exploding Pop

Conclusion: The World Wide Web Bibliography of Works Cited Index Acknowledgements About the Author Notes By the Same Author Copyright About the Publisher

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