Making the News: Modernity and the Mass Press in Nineteenth-Century France

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558491775
• ISBN13: 9781558491779
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher