Due to a burgeoning print marketplace during the late 19th century, urban newspapers felt pressure to create entertaining prose, drawing on popular literary genres as a way of framing the news. Karen Roggenkamp examines five stories featured in New York newspapers during the 189…
"In Narrating the News Karen Roggenkamp examines five major stories featured in three respected New York newspapers during the 1890s - the story of two antebellum hoaxes, Nellie Bly's around-the-world journey, Lizzie Borden's sensational trial, Evangelina Cisneros's rescue from …
In this scholarly examination of new journalism, Roggenkamp examines five major stories featured in three respected New York newspapers during the 1890s to illustrate how new journalism manipulated specific segments of the literary marketplace. These case studies are complemente…