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Journalism and the rise of the novel, 1700-1875 : Daniel Defoe to George Eliot

Literary realism and the fictions of the industrialized press, 1850-1915 : Mark Twain to Theodore Dreiser

Reporters as novelists and the making of contemporary journalistic fiction, 1890-today : Rudyard Kipling to Joan Didion

The taint of journalistic literature and the stigma of the ink-stained wretch : Joel Chandler Harris to Dorothy Parker and beyond

Epilogue : the future of journalistic fiction and the legacy of the journalist-literary figures : Henry James to Tom Wolfe

Appendix : the major journalist-literary figures : their writings and positions in journalism.

English fiction > History and criticism.

American fiction > History and criticism.

Journalism and literature > Great Britain.

Journalism and literature > United States.

Journalism > Great Britain > History.

Journalism > United States > History.