Journalism and the novel
Subtitle: truth and fiction, 1700-2000
By: Doug Underwood.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9780521899529
Subjects: English fiction -- History and criticism; American fiction -- History and criticism; Journalism and literature -- Great Britain; Journalism and literature -- United States; Journalism -- Great Britain -- History; Journalism -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Journalism and the rise of fiction, 1700-1875: Daniel Defoe to George Eliot; title: Literary realism and the fictions of the industrialized press, 1850-1915: Mark Twain to Theodore Dreiser; title: Reporters-turned-novelists and the making of contemporary journalistic fiction, 1890-today: Rudyard Kipling to Joan Didion; title: The taint of journalistic literature and the stigma of the ink-stained wretch: Joel Chandler Harris to Dorothy Parker and beyond; title: Epilogue: the future of journalistic fiction and the legacy of the journalist-literary figures: Henry James to Tom Wolfe; title: Appendix; The major journalist-literary figures: their writings and positions in journalism.