The journalistic imagination : literary journalists from Defoe to Capote and Carter /

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Imprint:	London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.
Description:	ix, 160 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	English prose literature. American prose literature. Journalism. American prose literature. English prose literature. Journalism.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6638564

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Other authors / contributors:	Keeble, Richard, 1948- Wheeler, Sharon, 1963-
ISBN:	9780415417235 (alk. paper) 0415417236 (alk. paper) 9780415417242 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0415417244 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780203939765 (ebook) 020393976X (ebook)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : on Journalism, Creativity and the Imagination
Chapter 1. Defoe's The Storm as a model for contemporary reporting
Chapter 2. William Hazlitt: poetry, drama, and literary journalism
Chapter 3. The personal is the political: George Sand's contribution to popular journalism
Chapter 4. Charles Dickens and the voices of journalism
Chapter 5. 'A work and a purpose': Willa Cather's journalism
Chapter 6. 'The Dangerous Third Martini': Graham Greene, Libel and Literary Journalism in 1930s Britain
Chapter 7. The lasting in the ephemeral: Assessing George Orwell's As I Please columns
Chapter 8. an unscathed tourist of wars: The journalism of Martha Gellhorn
Chapter 9. Cold-blooded journalism: Truman Capote and the non-fiction novel
Chapter 10. The journalist as philosopher and cultural critic: the case of Angela Carter

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