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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811127103321

Autore

Roggenkamp Karen <1969->

Titolo

Narrating the news : 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

Edizione

[1st ed.]

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

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.

Nota di contenuto

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.

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.