Narrating the news : new journalism and literary genre in late nineteenth-century American newspapers and fiction / Karen Roggenkamp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roggenkamp, Karen, 1969-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Press--United States--History--19th century.

Press.

Sensationalism in journalism--United States--History--19th century.

Sensationalism in journalism.

Reportage literature, American--History and criticism.

Reportage literature, American.

History.

United States.

Physical Description:

xix, 199 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, [2005]

Contents:

Introduction: Literary Rooms in the House of News xi

1 The Sun, the Moon, and Two Balloons: Edgar Allan Poe, Literary Hoaxes, and Penny Press Journalism 1

American Literary Realism and the Cult of the Real Thing 20

2 "To Turn a Fiction to a Fact": Nellie Bly, Jules Verne, and Trips Around the World 25

Journalist as Hero: Richard Harding Davis and the Cult of the Reporter in 1890s America 48

3 A Front Seat to Lizzie Borden: Julian Ralph, Literary Journalism, and the Construction of Criminal Fact 54

True Women and New Women: Lizzie Borden and Gender Anxieties in Late Nineteeth-Century America 82

4 The Evangelina Cisneros Romance, Medievalist Fiction, and Journalism That Acts 88

Captive Cubans, International Impulses, and New Journalism 108

5 From There to Here: Cooke, Conventions, Conclusions 113.

Notes:

Based on the author's doctoral dissertation--University of Minnesota.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-191) and index.

ISBN:

0873388267

OCLC:

57208318

Publisher Number:

9780873388269