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Building Print Community
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Julia Guarneri
Published: 16 November 2017
... travelogues, reprinted church sermons, and letters to the editor. Newspapers formed the raw material with which city dwellers pieced together their understanding of the city around them. Surprising and varied portions of newspapers, such as events listings, muckraking articles, and charity drives, built up...
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Willa Cather’s Promiscuous Fiction
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Donal Harris
Published: 04 October 2016
... journalism Lewis Edith practice promiscuous trade journalism as Adams Henry authors fiction “History of the Standard Oil Company The” Tarbell James Henry masculinization reportage and muckraking journalism One of Ours Cather O Pioneers! Cather professionalization reportage Song of the Lark...
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Chronotopes of a Dystopic Nation: The Birth of “Dependency” in Late Porfirian Mexico
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Claudio Lomnitz
Published: 07 August 2009
... the photographs that represented Mexico are described. Finally, the chapter also extends an analysis of James Creelman's interview of President Diaz and considers the question why alternative representations of Mexico (e.g. “muckraking”) have proved to be non-translatable and silent during the chronotope...
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Published: 01 June 2011
... benevolent reform missions. Inez Godman, a muckraking journalist who disguised herself as a domestic for a series of investigative magazine articles, pointed to the hypocrisy of a National Consumers' League member signing petitions demanding chairs for store clerks “when her own maid is on her feet...
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Folk devils and moral panics: women and youth across a century of censure
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David W. Gutzke
Published: 01 November 2013
... youth drinking binge drinking gin and tonic Measham Fiona rugby beer hawking Stanley Cohen Physical deterioration Infant mortality George R. Sims Cry of the Children Muckraking Women’s entry into pubs Binge drinking Prostitution Bogus historical parallels First enunciated in 1972...
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“A Standard for the People” The Burning Bush and the Organization of Mission in the MCA
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William Kostlevy
Published: 21 April 2010
...First noted for its demonstrative worship, the MCA’s periodical the Burning Bush employing the standard practices of early twentieth century muckraking journalism such as printing legal documents, private correspondence and most notable cartoons critical of Holiness Movement...
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Rough Justice: Crime, Corruption, and Urban Governance
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Christopher P. Wilson
Published: 01 December 2011
... discusses municipal police histories, the so-called light and shadow narratives, and the influence of print markets on the depiction of crime and governance in Progressive-era, magazine-based muckraking. Atlantic Monthly The crime Friedman Lawrence M Gilfoyle Timothy J Howells William Dean justice...
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Authorizing Skepticism: The New York Times and the Demise of Muckraking
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Gretchen Soderlund
Published: 01 May 2013
... concerns about the potential of the muckraking press in the disruption of capitalist democracy and promoted the newspaper’s own status as a prestigious and accurate news source. The New York Times thus contributed to the move away from a muckraking press in favor of objectivity...
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Satire, Sensations, and Slander: Criticism and Self-Criticism from Stalin to the Secret Speech
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Simon Huxtable
Published: 24 March 2022
... criticism Soviet journalism Soviet press muckraking Stalinism Secret Speech Thaw ‘There is such a thing as criticism, and there is also libel directed at honourable men.’ ‘Perfectly true,’ Lopatkin answered. He could not refrain from smiling at her stern look. ‘But who is to decide for us ...
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Introduction: The Man Who Broke Secrets
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Donald A. Ritchie
Published: 20 May 2021
... with. “There was in this feared and notorious muckraker, a kindliness, a gentleness, a sensitivity that we had not expected,” observed James Boyd, the chief whistleblower. “The battles, feuds, intrigues, and libel trials of forty turbulent years seemed not to have marked his personality. He seemed a shy man, actually.” Pearson...
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Published online: 20 May 2021
Published in print: 01 July 2021
... with. There was in this feared and notorious muckraker, a kindliness, a gentleness, a sensitivity that we had not expected, observed James Boyd, the chief whistleblower. The battles, feuds, intrigues, and libel trials of forty turbulent years seemed not to have marked his personality. He seemed a shy man, actually. Pearson...
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Interest, Disgust
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Morgan Day Frank
Published: 09 January 2023
... literary sociology literary studies muckraking naturalism literary Norris Frank revolutionary politics Sinclair Upton violence disgust literary Bourne Randolph Dewey John Gary Schools The Bourne Jungle The Sinclair McTeague Norris Parker Francis W Progressive education Quincy Method Rice...
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