Journalism and the Novel - Truth and Fiction, 1700-2000

Informationen zum Autor Doug Underwood is a professor of communication at the University of Washington who teaches in the areas of journalism and literature! media and religion! journalism and trauma! and media ethics and management. He is the author of five books and has won a Distinguished Book Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR). He also worked as a political and investigative journalist for The Seattle Times! the Gannett News Service's Washington! D. C. bureau! and the Lansing State Journal in Michigan. Klappentext Focuses on notable journalists-turned-novelists who have worked on the margins of fact and fiction since the early eighteenth century. Zusammenfassung Literary journalism is a rich field of study that has played an important role in the creation of the English and American literary canons. In this original study! Underwood focuses on the notable journalists-turned-novelists found at the margins of fact and fiction. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Journalism and the rise of fiction, 1700-1875: Daniel Defoe to George Eliot; 2. Literary realism and the fictions of the industrialized press, 1850-1915: Mark Twain to Theodore Dreiser; 3. Reporters-turned-novelists and the making of contemporary journalistic fiction, 1890-today: Rudyard Kipling to Joan Didion; 4. The taint of journalistic literature and the stigma of the ink-stained wretch: Joel Chandler Harris to Dorothy Parker and beyond; Epilogue: the future of journalistic fiction and the legacy of the journalist-literary figures; Appendix: the major journalist-literary figures: their writings and positions in journalism.

Product details

• Authors: Doug Underwood, Doug (University of Washington) Underwood, Underwood Doug
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.12.2010
• EAN: 9780521187541
• ISBN: 978-0-521-18754-1
• No. of pages: 278
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Journalism; English, 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, C 1700 To C 1800, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form