Both Newspaper And Magazine Journalism In The Nineteenth Century Fully Participated In The Development And Emergence Of American Realism In The Arts, Which Attempted To Portray Everyday Life Accurately, Especially In Fiction. In Photographs And Artists' Sketches As Well As News Articles And Features, Journalists Exposed The Stories And Conditions That Became The Material For American Realism, And They Were Also Its Early And Vocal Advocates. This Relationship Peaked From 1890 To 1910, When Writers Who Might Be Called The First Literary Journalists Closed The Circle By More Fully Adopting The Fiction Writer's Style Of Attempting To 'show The Reader Real Life,' As Their Literary Progeny Tom Wolfe Would Put It Many Years Later.--p. [4] Of Cover. A Paradigm Of Actuality -- Searching For The Real And Actual -- Stirrings And Roots: Urban Sketches And America's Flaneur -- The Storytellers -- Picturing The Present -- Carving Out The Real -- Experiments In Reality -- Documenting Time And Place. Thomas B. Connery ; Foreword By Roy Peter Clark. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 251-266) And Index.

Connery, Thomas Bernard

Thomas Bernard Connery

Marlboro Press, The

TriQuarterly Books

Hydra Books

United States, United States of America

Both newspaper and magazine journalism in the nineteenth century fully participated in the development and emergence of American Realism in the arts, which attempted to accurately portray everyday life, especially in fiction. Magazines and newspapers provided the raw material for American Realism, but were also its early and vocal advocates. This symbiotic relationship reached its peak from 1890 to 1910, when writers who might be called the first literary journalists (or, much later, new journalists) closed the circle by more fully adopting the fiction writers style of attempting to show the reader real life, as their literary progeny Tom Wolfe would put it many years later. Journalism and Realism fills a much-needed gap in the scholarship of American Realism.

"Both newspaper and magazine journalism in the nineteenth century fully participated in the development and emergence of American realism in the arts, which attempted to portray everyday life accurately, especially in fiction. In photographs and artists' sketches as well as news articles and features, journalists exposed the stories and conditions that became the material for American realism, and they were also its early and vocal advocates. This relationship peaked from 1890 to 1910, when writers who might be called the first literary journalists closed the circle by more fully adopting the fiction writer's style of attempting to 'show the reader real life, ' as their literary progeny Tom Wolfe would put it many years later."--Page 4 of cover

xxi, 281 p. ; 21 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-266) and index
A paradigm of actuality -- Searching for the real and actual -- Stirrings and roots: urban sketches and America's flaneur -- The storytellers -- Picturing the present -- Carving out the real -- Experiments in reality -- Documenting time and place

2024-01-26