Adventure journalism in the Gilded Age : essays on reporting from the Arctic to the Orient / edited by Katrina J. Quinn, Mary M. Cronin and Lee Jolliffe ; foreword by Michael S. Sweeney.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Quinn, Katrina J., editor.

Cronin, Mary M. (Mary Margaret), editor.

Jolliffe, Lee, editor.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Journalism.

Reporters and reporting.

History.

Press.

United States.

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

Reporters and reporting--United States--History--19th century.

Voyages and travels.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

vi, 243 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2021]

Summary:

"This collection tells the story of daring reporters, male and female, sent out by their publishers not to capture the news but to make the news-indeed to achieve star billing-and to capitalize on the Gilded Age public's craze for real-life adventures into the exotic and unknown. It examines the adventure journalism genre through the work of iconic writers such as Mark Twain and Nellie Bly, as well as lesser-known journalistic masters such as Thomas Knox and Eliza Scidmore, who took to the rivers and oceans, mineshafts and mountains, rails and trails of the late nineteenth century, shaping Americans' perceptions of the world and of themselves"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Adventures at Home

Adventure Reporting from America's Western Rails and Trails, 1860

1880 / Katrina J. Quinn

From Gotham to the Golden Gate: Promoting American Expansion, Exceptionalism, and Nationhood by Railroad / Mary M. Cronin

"Into the Dark Abyss": Gilded Age Adventure Reporting from the Mines of America / Katrina J. Quinn

Float Along the Frontier: Down the Missouri with Captain Paul Boyton, James Creelman, and the New York Herald / Crompton Burton

"An Almost Undiscovered Country": Frank Leslie's 1890 Alaska Expedition and the Tradition of Gilded Age Adventure Journalism / Mary M. Cronin

Teresa Howard Dean: Reporting Tragedies and Triumphs from the American West / Paulette D. Kilmer

pt. II Globetrotters

Thomas Wallace Knox: A Celebrity Journalist's Travel and Adventure in Siberia and China / William E. Huntzicker

"Burning of the Clipper Ship Hornet at Sea" and Other Reports from Hawaii: Mark Twain's Adventure Reporting from the Sandwich Islands / Jennifer E. Moore

"The First Bold Adventure in the Cause of Humanity": Henry Morton Stanley's Adventure Journalism in Africa / James E. Mueller

To Better See the World: The Adventure Journalism of Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore / James E. Mueller

"Mr. Bennett's Expedition": The New York Herald's Arctic Adventure / Crompton Burton

"Alive, but wiser from our experience": Nellie Bly's Adventure Reporting from Mexico and Around the World / Katrina J. Quinn.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781476680552

1476680558

OCLC:

1251738798