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- Title
Literary Journalism Past and Future: A Journey of Many Miles in Intriguing Directions.
- Authors
Roberts, Nancy L.
- Abstract
This essay reflects on the last decade of literary journalism scholarship, noting such strengths as the development of literary journalism theory. Scholars have developed an increasingly sophisticated and diverse set of perspectives that has recently led to extensive scholarly study of international literary journalism, including both studies of individual regions and countries and comparative, transnational studies. Over the past ten years, scholars have admirably diversified literary journalism's canon through study of individuals and subjects historically overlooked, from sources also largely ignored. These include women and African Americans, as well as alternative published sources of literary journalism rather than solely elite sources, such as farming women's magazines and the epistolary content of nineteenth-century U.S. newspapers. This area will be enriched by further development, including study of alternative, non-elite sources such as religious tracts and periodicals, social movement publications, African American newspapers, muckraking/investigative reporting, and travel writing. Recent scholarship on aspects of digital literary journalism is promising, though much more inquiry is needed to develop this area. Finally, ethical aspects of literary journalism are beginning to attract scholarly attention and further research is also needed to flesh out this area.
- Subjects
CREATIVE nonfiction; SOCIAL movements; SCHOLARSHIPS; NEWSPAPERS; ENGLISH epistolary fiction
- Publication
Literary Journalism Studies, 2018, Vol 10, Issue 2, p59
- ISSN
1944-897X
- Publication type
Article