Special issue: ‘Literary Journalism: Ethics in Three Dimensions’
- Submitting institution
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City, University of London
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 1295
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Sage
- ISBN
- 0000000000
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- July
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/jou/15/5
- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This co-edited special journal issue consists of ten critical essays by scholars from the UK, US, the Netherlands and South Africa, and a co-authored introduction. As co-editors, Wheelwright and Greenberg worked closely together and with the contributors to develop a special issue that offers a critical intervention in the evolving field of literary journalism. The editors’ jointly authored introduction (pp. 511-16) establishes the special issue’s three-pronged critical framework in response to the question of ethics in literary journalism: epistemological considerations; the act of reportage; and (particularly pertinent to literary journalism) the relationship between aesthetics and ethics. This critical intervention seeks to offer a model for further work on ethical questions in the genre of literary journalism. Wheelwright and Greenberg’s shared editorial work involved constructing the project, commissioning essays, helping authors to develop the arguments and structure of their contributions, suggesting revisions, and ensuring stylistic and bibliographic consistency across the special issue. Apart from co-writing the introduction, Wheelwright also contributes a single-authored essay (pp. 561-72) that explores the problem of the unreliable narrator in accounts of espionage. Through a case study of the double agent Kitty Harris, Wheelwright explores the difficulties of constructing literary journalism in the field of intelligence history when interview sources and official records may prove unreliable.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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