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Literature and Journalism

Inspirations, Intersections, and Inventions from Ben Franklin to Stephen Colbert

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: A Brief History of Literature and Journalism in the United States

    • Mark Canada
    Pages 1-23

  3. Benjamin Franklin, Literary Journalism, and Finding a National Subject

    • Carla Mulford
    Pages 25-46

  4. Walt Whitman’s Journalism

    • David S. Reynolds
    Pages 47-67

  5. “Not feeling very well … we turned our attention to poetry”

    • Elizabeth Lorang
    Pages 69-89

  6. The True, the False, and the “not exactly lying”

    • Andie Tucher
    Pages 91-118

  7. Elizabeth Jordan, “True Stories of the News,” and Newspaper Fiction in Late-Nineteenth-Century Journalism

    • Karen Roggenkamp
    Pages 119-141

  8. Where the Masses Met the Classes

    • Charles Johanningsmeier
    Pages 143-167

  9. Fame and the Fate of Celebrity

    • Doug Underwood
    Pages 169-185

  10. Ernest Hemingway in Esquire

    • John Fenstermaker
    Pages 187-207

  11. Stephen Colbert’s Harvest of Shame

    • Geoffrey Baym
    Pages 209-230

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 231-246
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The first of its kind, this collection will explore the ways that literature and journalism have intersected in the work of American writers. Covering the impact of the newspaper on Whitman's poetry, nineteenth-century reporters' fabrications, and Stephen Colbert's alternative journalism, this book will illuminate and inform.

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"A strong addition to a crowded literature . . . Recommended." - CHOICE

About the authors

Geoffrey Baym, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA John J. Fenstermaker, Florida State University, USA Charles Johanningsmeier, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA Elizabeth Lorang, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Carla Mulford, Pennsylvania State University, USA David S. Reynolds, CUNY Graduate Center, USA Karen Roggenkamp, Texas A&M University-Commerce, USA Andie Tucher, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, USA Doug Underwood, University of Washington, USA

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