Doug Underwood

Journalism and the Novel

Truth and Fiction, 1700 2000

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Focuses on notable journalists-turned-novelists who have worked on the margins of fact and fiction since the early eighteenth century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 456g
• ISBN-13: 9780521187541
• ISBN-10: 0521187540
• Artikelnr.: 32860303

Autorenporträt

Doug Underwood is a professor of communication at the University of Washington who teaches in the areas of journalism and literature, media and religion, journalism and trauma, and media ethics and management. He is the author of five books and has won a Distinguished Book Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR). He also worked as a political and investigative journalist for The Seattle Times, the Gannett News Service's Washington, D. C. bureau, and the Lansing State Journal in Michigan.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. Journalism and the rise of fiction, 1700-1875: Daniel
Defoe to George Eliot; 2. Literary realism and the fictions of the
industrialized press, 1850-1915: Mark Twain to Theodore Dreiser; 3.
Reporters-turned-novelists and the making of contemporary journalistic
fiction, 1890-today: Rudyard Kipling to Joan Didion; 4. 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;
Appendix: the major journalist-literary figures: their writings and
positions in journalism.