Balzac Invents Fake News-and the Modern World
Lost Illusions, Honoré de Balzac
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4188955 |
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| Authors | Peter Brooks (0000-0003-4915-4986), Peter W Brooks (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 85 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 521-539 |
| Publication date | 2018-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-783X • E-ISSN: 1944-768X |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/sor.2018.0028 |
| OpenAlex | W2904990329 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
Balzac's novel of an initiation into Parisian journalism presciently dramatizes the creation of organs of fake news, and the destruction of principles of belief and authority that follows—all, as he sees it, an inevitable part of capitalist modernity and the coming of the cash nexus
Aesthetics · Art · Fake news · Honor · Illusion · Internet privacy · Journalism · Media studies · Modernity · Nexus (standard) · Political science · Sociology · Computer Science · French Literature and Criticism · French Literature and Poetry · Law · Literature and Culture Studies · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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