Fictions of the Press in Nineteenth-Century France

• Main Author: Birch, Edmund (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature
• Subjects: Literature, Modern-19th century.; European literature.; Fiction.; Literature-History and criticism.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.; European Literature.; Literary History.

This book explores how writers responded to the rise of the newspaper over the course of the nineteenth century. Taking as its subject the ceaseless intertwining of fiction and journalism at this time, it tracks the representation of newspapers and journalists in works by Honoré de Balzac, Edmond a...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• 1. Newspaper Fictions, Newspaper Histories
• 2. A Sentimental Education: Balzac's Journalists
• 3. The Brothers Goncourt and the End of Privacy
• 4. Sleight of Hand: Maupassant and Actualité
• Conclusion.