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The first study of the role of the newspaperwoman in American literary culture at the turn of the twentieth century, this book recaptures the imaginative exchange between real-life reporters like Nellie Bly and Ida B. Wells and fictional characters like Henrietta Stackpole, the lady-correspondent in Henry James's Portrait of a Lady. It chronicles the exploits of a neglected group of American women writers and uncovers an alternative reporter-novelist tradition that runs counter to the more familiar story of gritty realism generated in male-dominated newsrooms. Taking up actual newspaper accounts written by women, fictional portrayals of female journalists, and the work of reporters-turned-novelists such as Willa Cather and Djuna Barnes, Jean Marie Lutes finds in women's journalism a rich and complex source for modern American fiction. Female journalists, cast as both standard-bearers and scapegoats of an emergent mass culture, created fictions of themselves that far outlasted the fleeting news value of the stories they covered.Front-Page Girls revives the spectacular stories of now-forgotten newspaperwomen who were not afraid of becoming the news themselves-the defiant few who wrote for the city desks of mainstream newspapers and resisted the growing demand to fill women's columns with fashion news and household hints. It also examines, for the first time, how women's journalism shaped the path from news to novels for women writers.

Women journalists --- Women journalists in literature. --- Journalism and literature. --- Journalism --- Social aspects

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Women journalists --- Women's periodicals, American --- Women journalists in literature. --- Women and journalism --- American fiction --- History --- History and criticism.

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"Why did Edwardian novelists portray journalists as swashbuckling, truth-seeking super-heroes whereas post-WW2 depictions present the journalist as alienated outsider? Why are contemporary fictional journalists often deranged, murderous or intensely vulnerable? As newspaper journalism faces the double crisis of a lack of trust post-Leveson, and a lack of influence in the fragmented internet age, how do cultural producers view journalists and their role in society today? In The Journalist in British Fiction and Film Sarah Lonsdale traces the ways in which journalists and newspapers have been depicted in fiction, theatre and film from the dawn of the mass popular press to the present day. The book asks first how journalists were represented in various distinct periods of the 20th century and then attempts to explain why these representations vary so widely. This is a history of the British press, told not by historians and sociologists, but by writers and directors as well as journalists themselves. In uncovering dozens of forgotten fictions, Sarah Lonsdale explores the bare-knuckled literary combat conducted by writers contesting the disputed boundaries between literature and journalism. Within these texts and films there is perhaps also a clue as to how the best aspects of 'Fourth estate' journalism can survive in the digital age. Authors covered in the volume include: Martin Amis, Graham Greene, George Orwell, Pat Barker, Evelyn Waugh, Elizabeth Bowen, Arnold Wesker and Rudyard Kipling. Television and films covered include: House of Cards (US and UK versions), Spotlight, Defence of the Realm, Secret State and State of Play."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Journalism and literature --- Journalism and motion pictures. --- Journalists in literature. --- Journalists in motion pictures. --- English fiction --- Motion pictures --- Journalism and moving-pictures --- Motion pictures and journalism --- Literature and journalism --- Literature --- History and criticism. --- Journalists in literature --- Journalists in motion pictures --- English literature --- History --- Themes, motives --- Journalists --- Columnists --- Commentators --- Authors --- Presse et littérature --- Themes, motives. --- Presse et littérature

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Brings together a group of well-known American writers of the inter-war period including: Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemmingway, Zora Neale Hurston, James Agee, and Robert Penn Warren. This book demonstrates how these writers engage journalism in creating texts that address mass culture as well as underlying cultural conditions.

American prose literature --- Press and journalism in literature. --- Journalists in literature. --- Popular culture in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Journalism in literature --- Press in literature --- praise --- famous --- men --- individual --- reporter --- willie --- stark --- kings --- tenant --- farmers