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 of the popular press in the United States,
Great Britain, and Germany.
The essays address a wide range of topics, from the emergence of
commercial daily newspapers during the July Monarchy to the
photographic representation of women in the Paris Commune. Together
they demonstrate that the French mass press was far more
heterogeneous than previously supposed, tapping into an expanding
readership composed of a variety of publics -- from affluent
bourgeois to disaffected workers to disenfranchised women. It was
also relentlessly innovative, using caricature, argot,
advertisements, and other attention-grabbing techniques that
blurred the lines separating art, politics, and the news.
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