Literature and Journalism

Geoffrey Baym, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USAJohn J. Fenstermaker, Florida State University, USACharles Johanningsmeier, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USAElizabeth Lorang, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USACarla Mulford, Pennsylvania State University, USADavid S. Reynolds, CUNY Graduate Center, USAKaren Roggenkamp, Texas A&M University-Commerce, USAAndie Tucher, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, USADoug Underwood, University of Washington, USA

• 1. Benjamin Franklin, Literary Journalism, and Finding a National Subject; Carla Mulford 2. Walt Whitman's Journalism: The Foreground of Leaves of Grass; David S. Reynolds 3. 'Not feeling very well . . . we turned our attention to poetry': Poetry, Washington, D.C.'s Hospital Newspapers, and the Civil War; Elizabeth Lorang 4. The True, the False, and the 'not exactly lying': Making Fakes and Telling Stories in the Age of the Real Thing; Andie Tucher 5. Elizabeth Jordan, 'True Stories of the News,' and Newspaper Fiction in Late Nineteenth-Century Journalism; Karen Roggenkamp 6. Where the Masses Met the Classes: Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century American Newspapers and Their Significance to Literary Scholars; Charles Johanningsmeier 7. Fame and the Fate of Celebrity: The Trauma of the Lionized Journalist-Literary Figure; Doug Underwood 8. Ernest Hemingway in Esquire: Contextualizing Arnold Gingrich's Posthumous Portrait(s) of Man and Artist, 1961-1973; John Fenstermaker 9. Stephen Colbert's Harvest of Shame; Geoffrey Baym

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