Journalism and realism : rendering American life / Thomas B. Connery ; foreword by Roy Peter Clark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Connery, Thomas Bernard.

Series:

Visions of the American press

Medill School of Journalism. Visions of the American press

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Journalism.

Journalism and literature.

History.

United States.

Reportage literature, American--History and criticism.

Reportage literature, American.

Journalism and literature--United States--History--19th century.

Realism in literature.

Physical Description:

xxi, 281 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2011.

Summary:

Both newspaper and magazine journalism in the nineteenth century fully participated in the development and emergence of American realism in the arts, which attempted to portray everyday life accurately, especially in fiction. In photographs and artists' sketches as well as news articles and features, journalists exposed the stones and conditions that became the material for American realism, and they were also its early and vocal advocates. This relationship peaked from 1890 to 1910, when writers who might be called the first literary journalists closed the circle by more fully adopting the fiction writer's style of attempting to "show the reader real life," as their literary progeny Tom Wolfe would put it many years later. Journalism and Realism offers a much-needed exploration both of journalists' role in the development of American realism and of literary realism's contributions to American journalism. Book jacket.

Contents:

A paradigm of actuality

Searching for the real and actual

Stirrings and roots: urban sketches and America's flaneur

The storytellers

Picturing the present

Carving out the real

Experiments in reality

Documenting time and place.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780810127333

0810127334

OCLC:

693809802