A wide range of writers are brought together for the first time in this discussion of an on-going, largely unrecognized American prose tradition: literary journalism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Such writing was not new journalism and therefore simply a type of journalism; nor was it factual fiction, merely a type of realistic fiction. Rather, it can be examined as a distinct literary form, a type of cultural expression that can be defined and characterized.
Thirty-five lively and literate essays by contributing scholars analyze major writers of this literary genre or...
A wide range of writers are brought together for the first time in this discussion of an on-going, largely unrecognized American prose tradition: l...
Both newspaper and magazine journalism in the nineteenth century fully participated in the development and emergence of American Realism in the arts, which attempted to accurately portray everyday life, especially in fiction. Magazines and newspapers provided the raw material for American Realism, but were also its early and vocal advocates. This symbiotic relationship reached its peak from 1890 to 1910, when writers who might be called the first literary journalists (or, much later, new journalists ) closed the circle by more fully adopting the fiction writer s style of attempting to show...
Both newspaper and magazine journalism in the nineteenth century fully participated in the development and emergence of American Realism in the arts, ...
