Journalism and the novel : truth and fiction, 1700-2000 / Doug Underwood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Underwood, Doug, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--History and criticism.

English fiction.

American fiction--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Journalism and literature--Great Britain.

Journalism and literature.

Journalism and literature--United States.

Journalism--Great Britain--History.

Journalism.

Journalism--United States--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 269 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Journalism & the Novel

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Literary journalism is a rich field of study that has played an important role in the creation of the English and American literary canons. In this original and engaging study, Doug Underwood focuses on the many notable journalists-turned-novelists found at the margins of fact and fiction since the early eighteenth century, when the novel and the commercial periodical began to emerge as powerful cultural forces. Writers from both sides of the Atlantic are discussed, from Daniel Defoe to Charles Dickens, and from Mark Twain to Joan Didion. Underwood shows how many literary reputations are built on journalistic foundations of research and reporting, and how this impacts on questions of realism and authenticity throughout the work of many canonical authors. This book will be of great interest to researchers and students of British and American literature.

Contents:

Journalism and the rise of the novel, 1700-1875 : Daniel Defoe to George Eliot

Literary realism and the fictions of the industrialized press, 1850-1915 : Mark Twain to Theodore Dreiser

Reporters as novelists and the making of contemporary journalistic fiction, 1890-today : Rudyard Kipling to Joan Didion

The taint of journalistic literature and the stigma of the ink-stained wretch : Joel Chandler Harris to Dorothy Parker and beyond

Epilogue : the future of journalistic fiction and the legacy of the journalist-literary figures : Henry James to Tom Wolfe

Appendix : the major journalist-literary figures : their writings and positions in journalism.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-258) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-20242-6

1-281-98239-3

9786611982393

0-511-46423-1

0-511-55183-5

0-511-46265-4

0-511-46497-5

0-511-46190-9

0-511-46344-8

OCLC:

476232486