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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460051603321

Autore

Roggenkamp Karen <1969->

Titolo

Narrating the news [[electronic resource] ] : new journalism and literary genre in late nineteenth-century American newspapers and fiction / / Karen Roggenkamp

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Kent, Ohio, : Kent State University Press, c2005

ISBN

1-283-02472-1

9786613024725

1-61277-425-3

Descrizione fisica

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

Disciplina

071/.3/09034

Soggetti

Press - United States - History - 19th century

Sensationalism in journalism - United States - History - 19th century

Reportage literature, American - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

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.