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Author:

Canada, Mark.

Title:

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

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

x, 203 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
Journalism and literature--United States--History--19th century.
Press and journalism in literature.
Journalism--United States--History--19th century.
American newspapers--History--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-193)-and index.

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.

ISBN:

0230110940
9780230110946

OCLC:

(OCoLC)662407399

LCCN:

2010037605

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)