Adventure Journalism in the Gilded Age: Essays on Reporting from the Arctic to the Orient - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1476680558 ISBN 13 : 9781476680552

Editeur : McFarland & Co Inc, 2021

Synopsis

These new essays tell the stories of daring reporters, male and female, sent out by their publishers not to capture the news but to make the news--indeed to achieve star billing--and to capitalize on the Gilded Age public's craze for real-life adventures into the exotic and unknown. They examine the adventure journalism genre through the work of iconic writers such as Mark Twain and Nellie Bly, as well as lesser-known journalistic masters such as Thomas Knox and Eliza Scidmore, who took to the rivers and oceans, mineshafts and mountains, rails and trails of the late nineteenth century, shaping Americans' perceptions of the world and of themselves.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Katrina J. Quinn is a professor of communication at Slippery Rock University. Named a Hazel Dicken-Garcia Distinguished Scholar of Journalism History in 2019, she has published on topics such as nineteenth-century political reporting, sensationalism, literary journalism, narrative, and personal accounts of the American frontier.

Mary M. Cronin is a professor at New Mexico State University and a former newspaper reporter, editor and freelance writer.

Lee Jolliffe is a professor of journalism at Drake University, where she teaches media design and honors courses on the media. Prior to her academic career, she worked as a freelance writer and as supervisor of the Writing and Editing Section at Battelle Institute on projects for NASA, DOE, DoD, NSF, NIH, and the EPA.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: McFarland & Co Inc
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1476680558
• ISBN 13: 9781476680552
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 249
• Éditeur: Quinn Katrina J., Cronin Mary M., Jolliffe Lee
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