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The first of its kind, this collection will explore the ways that literature and journalism have intersected in the work of American writers. Covering the impact of the newspaper on Whitman's poetry, nineteenth-century reporters' fabrications, and Stephen Colbert's alternative journalism, this book will illuminate and inform.
List of contents
1. Benjamin Franklin, Literary Journalism, and Finding a National Subject; Carla Mulford 2. Walt Whitman's Journalism: The Foreground of Leaves of Grass; David S. Reynolds 3. 'Not feeling very well . . . we turned our attention to poetry': Poetry, Washington, D.C.'s Hospital Newspapers, and the Civil War; Elizabeth Lorang 4. The True, the False, and the 'not exactly lying': Making Fakes and Telling Stories in the Age of the Real Thing; Andie Tucher 5. Elizabeth Jordan, 'True Stories of the News,' and Newspaper Fiction in Late Nineteenth-Century Journalism; Karen Roggenkamp 6. Where the Masses Met the Classes: Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century American Newspapers and Their Significance to Literary Scholars; Charles Johanningsmeier 7. Fame and the Fate of Celebrity: The Trauma of the Lionized Journalist-Literary Figure; Doug Underwood 8. Ernest Hemingway in Esquire: Contextualizing Arnold Gingrich's Posthumous Portrait(s) of Man and Artist, 1961-1973; John Fenstermaker 9. Stephen Colbert's Harvest of Shame; Geoffrey Baym
About the author
Geoffrey Baym, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA
John J. Fenstermaker, Florida State University, USA
Charles Johanningsmeier, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA
Elizabeth Lorang, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Carla Mulford, Pennsylvania State University, USA
David S. Reynolds, CUNY Graduate Center, USA
Karen Roggenkamp, Texas A&M University-Commerce, USA
Andie Tucher, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, USA
Doug Underwood, University of Washington, USA
Summary
The first of its kind, this collection will explore the ways that literature and journalism have intersected in the work of American writers. Covering the impact of the newspaper on Whitman's poetry, nineteenth-century reporters' fabrications, and Stephen Colbert's alternative journalism, this book will illuminate and inform.
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"A strong addition to a crowded literature . . . Recommended." - CHOICE
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"A strong addition to a crowded literature . . . Recommended." - CHOICE
