{"product_id":"chronicling-trauma-journalists-and-writers-on-violence-and-loss-9780252036408","title":"Chronicling Trauma  Journalists and Writers on","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA searing study of the intersection of journalism, fiction, and traumatic violence\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Fascinating. . . . Will make you look at some of your favorite authors—from Twain to Hemingway, Dickens to Defoe—in a fresh light.\"--\u003ci\u003eAmerican Journalism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An intriguing, impressive, and original contribution that will inspire considerable thought about the history of journalism, the dynamic between a society's culture and its characteristic literature, and the impact of trauma on a writer's choice of literary subjects.\"--Nancy L. Roberts, coauthor of \u003ci\u003eThe Press and America: An Interpretive History of the Mass Media\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A beautifully interdisciplinary work that effortlessly combines psychology, literature, and journalism studies to carve out its own frontier. I have never seen a book on a similar topic that is so readable, accessible, and vast in scope as this one.\"--Jan Whitt, author of \u003ci\u003eWomen in American Journalism: A New History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the strengths of Underwood's approach . . . is his ability to interweave these traumatic histories into a seamless and compelling narrative of human experience.\"--\u003ci\u003eMedia International Australia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Underwood rightly asks whether and how changing journalistic and literary production (the disappearing newsroom, the increasingly micro-technology we use to read and communicate, the changing nature of the printed word itself) might be altering the narration and consumption of trauma.\"--\u003ci\u003eH-Net Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Trauma, News, and Narrative: The Study of Violence and Loss in Journalism and Fiction; 1. Stories of Harm, Stories of Hazard: Childhood Stress and Professional Trauma in the Careers of Journalist-Literary Figures; 2. Trafficking in Trauma: Women's Rights, Civil Rights, and Sensationalism as a Spur to Social Justice; 3. Trauma in War, Trauma in Life: The Pose of the \"Heroic\" Battlefield Correspondent; 4. Depression, Drink, and Dissipation: Dysfunctional Lifestyles and Art as the Ultimate Stimulant; Epilogue: New Challenges, New Treatments: Trauma and the Contemporary Journalist-Literary Figure  Appendix of Tables; Notes","brand":"MO - University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51036819685719,"sku":"9780252036408","price":43.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252036408.jpg?v=1750932651","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/chronicling-trauma-journalists-and-writers-on-violence-and-loss-9780252036408","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}