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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. 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.
