Hired Pens: Professional Writers in America's Golden Age of Print - Rilegato

Weber, Ronald

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ISBN 10: 0821412043 ISBN 13: 9780821412046

Casa editrice: Ohio Univ Pr, 1997

Riassunto

A history of professional writing in America begins in the 1830s, when the print medium became a mass medium, highlighting such writers-for-hire as Jack London who have had a lasting impact on American culture. Simultaneous. UP.

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L'autore:

Ronald Weber is Professor of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame and the author of many books, both fiction and nonfiction. He is the editor of The Reporter as Artist: A Look at the New Journalism Controversy.

Product Description:

Hired Pens tells the story of the class of full-time independent professional writers who emerged in America in the 1830s and '40s and flourished during the great age of print that began after the Civil War and continued into the 1960s. While most accounts of the writing life focus on high-culture artists, Hired Pens treats authors who pursued the shifting popular tastes of Grub Street. Likewise it treats a literary marketplace that includes not only novels and poetry but gift annuals, story papers, general-circulation magazines, dime novels, pulp and slick magazines, newspaper syndicates, and paperback originals.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Ohio Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0821412043
• ISBN 13: 9780821412046
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 315