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Literature and journalism in antebellum America : Thoreau, Stowe, and their contemporaries respond to the rise of the commercial press / Mark Canada.
Van Pelt Library PS374.J68 C36 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Canada, Mark.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Journalism and literature--United States--History--19th century.
- Journalism and literature.
- Press and journalism in literature.
- Journalism--United States--History--19th century.
- Journalism.
- American newspapers.
- History.
- United States.
- American newspapers--History--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- x, 203 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [183]-193)-and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780230110946
- 0230110940
- OCLC:
- 662407399
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