Southern Press - Literary Legacies and the Challenge of Modernity

Informationen zum Autor DOUG CUMMING is an assistant professor of journalism at Washington and Lee University, a former Nieman Fellow, and a George Polk Award-winning journalist. He lives in Lexington, VA. HODDING CARTER III is a professor of Public Policy at the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina, a former Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, and the author of The Reagan Years and The South Strikes Back. He lives in Chapel Hill, NC. Klappentext The Southern journalist was more likely to be a Romantic and an intellectual. The region's journalism was personal, colorful, and steeped in the classics. This title suggests that the South's journalism struck a literary pose closer to the older English press than to the democratic penny press or bourgeois magazines of the urban North. Zusammenfassung The Southern journalist was more likely to be a Romantic and an intellectual. The region's journalism was personal! colorful! and steeped in the classics. This title suggests that the South's journalism struck a literary pose closer to the older English press than to the democratic penny press or bourgeois magazines of the urban North.

Product details

• Authors: Doug Cumming, Doug/ Carter Cumming
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.05.2009
• EAN: 9780810123946
• ISBN: 978-0-8101-2394-6
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Medill School of Journalism Visions of the American Press; Medill School of Journalism Vi; Medill School of Journalism Vi
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Journalism