Literature and Journalism : Inspirations, Intersections, and Inventions from Ben Franklin to Stephen Colbert / Edited by Mark Canada.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Canada, Mark, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Journalism and literature--United States--History.

Journalism and literature.

Literature and society--United States--History.

Literature and society.

American literature--History and criticism.

American literature.

History.

United States.

Physical Description:

vi, 246 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Summary:

Literature and journalism have been intimate companions in American letters for three centuries. This collection of essays, the first of its kind, will explore the variety of ways that the two fields have intersected in the lives and works of American writers Here, leading scholars examine poetry in Civil War-era newspaper, truth and falsehood in the age of yellow journalism, and the value of newspapers as a source for literary scholarship, as well as the specific experiences and contributions of Benjamin Franklin, Walt Whitman, Emest Hemingway, Stephen Colbert, and other American authors and journalists. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Benjamin Franklin, Literary Journalism, and Finding a National Subject / Carla Mulford Mulford, Carla 25

2 Walt Whitman's Journalism: The Foreground of Leaves of Grass / David S. Reynolds Reynolds, David S. 47

3 "Not feeling very well ... we turned our attention to poetry": Poetry; Washington, DC's Hospital Newspapers; and the Civil War / Elizabeth Lorang Lorang, Elizabeth 69

4 The True, the False, and the "not exactly lying": Making Fakes and Telling Stories in the Age of the Real Thing / Andie Tucher Tucher, Andie 91

5 Elizabeth Jordan, "True Stories of the News," and Newspaper Fiction in Late-Nineteenth-Century Journalism / Karen Roggenkamp Roggenkamp, Karen 119

6 Where the Masses Met the Classes: Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Newspapers and Their Significance to Literary Scholars / Charles Johanningsmeier Johanningsmeier, Charles 143

7 Fame and the Fate of Celebrity: The Trauma of the Lionized Journalist-Literary Figure / Doug Underwood Underwood, Doug 169

8 Ernest Hemingway in Esquire: Contextualizing Arnold Gingrich's Posthumous Portraits) of Man and Artist, 1961

73 / John Fenstermaker Fenstermaker, John 187

9 Stephen Colbert's Harvest of Shame / Geoffrey Baym Baym, Geoffrey 209.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137300621

1137300620

OCLC:

818658856