Fictions of the press in nineteenth-century France /
[Book]
Edmund Birch.
Cham :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2018]
1 online resource
Palgrave studies in modern European literature
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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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 and Jules de Goncourt, and Guy de Maupassant. This was an era in which novels were published in newspapers and novelists worked as journalists. In France, fiction was to prove an utterly crucial presence at the newspaper's heart, with a gilded array of predominant literary figures active in journalism. Today, few in search of a novel would turn to the pages of a daily newspaper. But what are usually cast as discrete realms - fiction and journalism - came, in the nineteenth century, to occupy the same space, a point which complicates our sense of the cultural history of French literature.
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Fictions of the press in nineteenth-century France.
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Balzac, Honoré de,1799-1850-- Criticism and interpretation.
Bourdieu, Pierre,1930-2002-- Criticism and interpretation.
Girardin, Emile de,1806-1881.
Goncourt, Edmond de,1822-1896-- Criticism and interpretation.
Goncourt, Jules de,1830-1870-- Criticism and interpretation.
Balzac, Honoré de,1799-1850
Bourdieu, Pierre,1930-2002
Girardin, Emile de,1806-1881
Goncourt, Edmond de,1822-1896
Goncourt, Jules de,1830-1870
French fiction-- 19th century-- History and criticism.