Murder in Parisian Streets: Manufacturing Crime and Justice in the Popular Press, 1830-1900

by Thomas Cragin

This book provides an in-depth study of the production, sale, and content of the sensational canards - cheap news broad-sheets and booklets. It demonstrates the enormous popularity of this old news genre throughout the nineteenth century and its critical influence upon the eventual success of the mass-circulation tabloids, challenging much that scholars assume about the country's revolution in print. Informed by folkloric and cultural studies as well...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0838755798
• ISBN13: 9780838755792
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Length: 273 Pages
• Weight: 2.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.7" x 11.2"