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Zusatztext "A strong addition to a crowded literature . . . Recommended." - CHOICE Informationen zum Autor Geoffrey Baym, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USAJohn J. Fenstermaker, Florida State University, USACharles Johanningsmeier, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA Elizabeth Lorang, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USACarla Mulford, Pennsylvania State University, USADavid S. Reynolds, CUNY Graduate Center, USAKaren Roggenkamp, Texas A&M University-Commerce, USAAndie Tucher, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, USADoug Underwood, University of Washington, USA Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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...
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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
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"A strong addition to a crowded literature . . . Recommended." - CHOICE
