The Journalistic Imagination : Literary Journalists from Defoe to Capote and Carter (Paperback)

Introduction: On Journalism, Creativity and the Imagination  1. Defoe's The Storm as a Model for Contemporary Reporting  2. William Hazlitt: Poetry, Drama, and Literary Journalism  3. The Personal is the Political: George Sand's Contribution to Popular Journalism  4. Charles Dickens and the Voices of Journalism  5. 'A Work and a Purpose': Willa Cather's Journalism  6. 'The Dangerous Third Martini': Graham Greene, Libel and Literary Journalism in 1930s Britain  7. The Lasting in the Ephemeral: Assessing George Orwell's As I Please Columns  8. An Unscathed Tourist of Wars: The Journalism of Martha Gellhorn  9. Cold-Blooded Journalism: Truman Capote and the Non-Fiction Novel   10. The Journalist as Philosopher and Cultural Critic: The Case of Angela Carter