Making the News: Modernity and the Mass Press in Nineteenth-Century France (Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book)
By Unknown Author.
Description
Much recent writing on print culture has focused on the social and political implications of the transition from "elite" to "mass" culture in the 1800s. The essays in this volume add significantly to our understanding of the role of the nineteenth-century French press in producing the commodities, consumers, and ideological frameworks that are the hallmarks of this shift. The book also offers an opportunity for useful comparisons with recent scholarship on the rise on the popular press in the United States, Great Britain, and Germany. The essays address a wide range of t...
ISBN(s)
1558491775, 9781558491779
