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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I The Many Faces of Sensationalism
1 Yellow Journalism: Why So Maligned and Misunderstood?
2 “Alarming Intelligence”: Sensationalism in Newspapers after the Raids at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, and St. Albans, Vermont
3 “What H. G. Knows About …”: Cartoonist Thomas Nast’s 1872 Crusade against Presidential Candidate Horace Greeley
4 Publishing Violence as Art and News: Sensational Prints and Pictures in the 19th-Century Press
5 Sensational Journalism in the Mid-19th Century
II Mudslinging, Muckraking, Scandals, and Yellow Journalism
6 “Despicable Journalism”: Sensationalism and the American Presidency in the 19th Century
7 Naughty Seeds of Sensationalism: Gossip and Celebrity in 19th-Century Reporting
8 “Ours Has Been No Pleasing Task”: Sensationalism in Frank Leslie’s Campaign against Swill Milk
9 Anglophobia as Art: Free Trade and Protection in Grover Cleveland Political Cartoons
10 Cuba’s “Hot Little Rebel” and Spain’s “Criminal Fugitive”: The Prison Escape of Evangelina Cisneros in 1897
11 Inheritors of a Sentimental Mantle: The 19th-Century Roots of Progressive Era Muckraking
III Murder, Mayhem, Stunts, Hoaxes, and Disasters
12 “STILL ANOTHER HORROR!”: Religion and Death in 19th-Century American Newspapers
13 Sex, Sin, and Sensation: Two Major Crime Stories in Antebellum New York
14 In Defense ofVespertilio-homo: Finding the Truth in the 1835 Moon Hoax
15 Pushing the Boundaries of Propriety: The Rise of the Penny Press, Flash Papers, and Illustrated Newspapers
16 New York Times Accident Stories: Sensational Coverage Warns of Consequences
17 Nellie Bly: Flying in the Face of Tradition
18 19th-Century Ship Captains in Reality and Mythos: The Role of Disaster Stories in Defining Seafaring Heroes
IV Hatred
19 The Making of a “Scoundrel”: Brigham Young and the Sensationalist Press, 1855–1860
20 Marches, Massacres, and Mayhem in the Civil War Period: Did Sensational News Always Lead to Sensationalized Reporting?
21 “Lawless Louisiana”: New Orleans Newspapers, Race, and the Battle of Liberty Place
About the Editors
List of Contributors
Index
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