Journalism, Literature and Modernity : from Hazlitt to Modernism

This work considers journalism in its diversity, suggesting its aptness for interdisciplinary study.

The authors examine writing in journals across a cultural spectrum - literary journals, organs of culture magazines, journals promoting modernism, and daily newspapers.

Demonstrating a variety of approaches, they explore journalism's importance in relation to gender, modernity and modernism through readings of established writers and critics.

They study challenges received ideas of journalism's significance in literary and cultural history, as well as perceptions of modernity and modernism.