Literature and journalism in antebellum America : Thoreau, Stowe, and their contemporaries respond to the rise of the commercial press / Mark Canada.

Author/creator Canada, Mark
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Descriptionx, 203 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction : a sibling rivalry in American letters -- Encounters and critiques -- The story and the truth -- Encounters with the news -- Literary critiques of journalism -- News of their own. Dispatches from the fringe -- Truthful hoaxes -- Investigative fiction -- Epilogue.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [183]-193) and index.
LCCN 2010037605
ISBN9780230110946
ISBN0230110940