Karen Roggenkamp: 2 books
Narrating the News
New Journalism and Literary Genre in Late Nineteenth-Century American Newspapers and Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2001
A scholarly examination of “new journalism”
Due to a burgeoning print marketplace during the late nineteenth century, urban newspapers felt pressure to create entertaining prose that appealed to readers, drawing on popular literary genres such as travel adventures, detective tales, and...
Sympathy, Madness, and Crime
How Four Nineteenth-Century Journalists Made the Newspaper Women's Business
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
In one of her escapades as a reporter for Joseph Pulitzer's New York World, the renowned Nellie Bly feigned insanity in 1889 and slipped, undercover, behind the grim walls of Blackwell's Island mental asylum. She emerged ten days later with a vivid tale about life in a madhouse. Her asylum articles...