The journalistic imagination : literary journalists from Defoe to Capote and Carter /
With an international focus, and a broad historical scope, this student-friendly book focuses on the neglected journalism of writers more famous for their novels or plays, and explores the specific functions of journalism within the public sphere, and the literary qualities of journalism.
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- Defoe's The storm as a model for contemporary reporting / Jenny McKay
- William Hazlitt : poetry, drama, and literary journalism / Kirsten Daly
- The personal is the political : George Sand's contribution to popular journalism / Jane Chapman
- Charles Dickens and the voices of journalism / John Tulloch
- 'A work and a purpose' : Willa Cather's journalism / Charlotte Beyer
- 'The dangerous third martini' : Graham Greene, libel and literary journalism in 1930s Britain / David Finkelstein
- The lasting in the ephemeral : assessing George Orwell's As I please columns / Richard Keeble
- An unscathed tourist of wars : the journalism of Martha Gellhorn / Deborah Wilson
- Cold-blooded journalism : Truman Capote and the non-fiction novel / Nick Nuttall
- The journalist as philosopher and cultural critic : the case of Angela Carter / Linden Peach.