Literature and Journalism in Antebellum America [electronic resource] : Thoreau, Stowe, and Their Contemporaries Respond to the Rise of the Commercial Press /
Canada, M.author.
Explores the sibling rivalry that emerged in the American literary marketplace in the decades after the advent of the penny press, showing how journalism became a target, a counterpoint, and even a model for numerous American authors, including Thoreau, Cooper, Poe, and Stowe.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : a sibling rivalry in American letters -- Encounters and critiques -- The story and the truth -- Encounters with the news -- Literary critiques of journalism -- News of their own. Dispatches from the fringe -- Truthful hoaxes -- Investigative fiction -- Epilogue.
Explores the sibling rivalry that emerged in the American literary marketplace in the decades after the advent of the penny press, showing how journalism became a target, a counterpoint, and even a model for numerous American authors, including Thoreau, Cooper, Poe, and Stowe.
America—Literatures.
Literature, Modern—19th century.
Communication.
Journalism.
North American Literature.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Media Studies.
Journalism.