Literature and journalism: inspirations, intersections, and inventions from Ben Franklin to Stephen Colbert

Abstract

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