Literary journalism on trial : Masson v. New Yorker and the First Amendment /
In November 1984, Jeffrey Masson filed a libel suit against writer Janet Malcolm and the 'New Yorker', claiming that Malcolm had intentionally misquoted him in a profile she wrote for the magazine about his former career as a Freud scholar and administrator of the Freud archives. Over the...
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| Language: | English |
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Amherst :
University of Massachusetts Press
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Archive Political Science and Policy Studies Foundation. |
| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5vk6jk |
Table of Contents:
- Masson v. New Yorker goes to trial
- Literary journalism and the New Yorker
- The historical origins of the Masson-Malcolm dispute
- Libel at the New Yorker
- Masson v. New Yorker in the early years
- Libel law and the postmodern dilemma : the search for truth
- The end of the line for Masson.