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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 199 p. ) ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Due to a burgeoning print marketplace during the late 19th century, urban newspapers felt pressure to create entertaining prose, drawing on popular literary genres as a way of framing the news. Karen Roggenkamp examines five stories featured in New York newspapers during the 1890's.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Literary rooms in the house of News

1. The Sun, the Moon, and two Balloons: edgar allan Poe, Literary hoaxes, and Penny Press Journalism

Aerican Literary realism and the Cult of the real thing

2. "To turn a Fiction to a Fact": Nellie Bly, Jules Verne, and trips around the world

Journalist as hero: richard harding Davis and the Cult of the reporter in ....s america

3. A Front seat to Lizzie Borden: Julian ralph, Literary Journalism, and the Construction of Criminal Fact

True women and New women: Lizzie Borden and gender anxieties in Late Nineteenth-Century america

4. The evangelina Cisneros romance, Medievalist Fiction, and Journalism that acts

Captive Cubans, international impulses, and New Journalism

5. From there to here: Cooke, Conventions, Conclusions

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-02472-1

9786613024725

1-61277-425-3

OCLC:

922968399