Literature and Journalism in Antebellum America

Thoreau, Stowe, and Their Contemporaries Respond to the Rise of the Commercial Press
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-349-29353-7
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 203 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 279 g

Explores the sibling rivalry that emerged in the American literary marketplace in the decades after the advent of the penny press, showing how journalism became a target, a counterpoint, and even a model for numerous American authors, including Thoreau, Cooper, Poe, and Stowe.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Canada, M.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Journalismus & Presse
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I: ENCOUNTERS AND CRITIQUES Common Ground Critical Readers, Beleaguered Subjects, and Crossover Writers Literary Critiques of Journalism PART II: NEWS OF THEIR OWN Dispatches from the Fringe Truthful Hoaxes Investigative Fiction Epilogue

Über Autor(innen)

MARK CANADA Professor and Chair of the Department of English and Theatre at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, USA