Stories of Today: Rebecca Harding Davis’ Investigative Fiction
- UNCP Author/Contributor (non-UNCP co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Dr. Mark Canada, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Pembroke (UNCP )
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Abstract: Long before her son, Richard Harding Davis, became a star reporter, Rebecca Harding Davis worked for the Wheeling Intelligencer in her home state of Virginia. Throughout a writing career that spanned ive decades and produced hundreds of stories, novels, and articles, she retained an interest in journalism. Beginning with an 1861 story, "Life in the Iron-Mills," she used fiction to report on current events. Later works, such as Put Out of the Way, an exposé of the system for institutionalizing the supposedly insane, and John Andross, a study of the effects of the Whiskey Ring on an individual, constituted a distinctive literary form: investigative fiction. Her work in this genre anticipated the major achievements of several other American writers, including Stephen Crane, Upton Sinclair, Truman Capote, and Tom Wolfe.
Stories of Today: Rebecca Harding Davis’ Investigative Fiction
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Journalism History; Summer 2012, v.38, Issue 2
- Language: English
- Date: 2012
- Keywords
- Journalism, Women Journalists, American Authors, American Women Authors, American Literature, Essayists
- Subjects
- Davis, Rebecca Harding, 1831-1910