Journalism and Realism: Rendering American Life

by Thomas B. Connery

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810127334
• ISBN13: 9780810127333
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.2" x 7.9"