Between the novel and the news : the emergence of American women's writing / Sari Edelstein
- Author
- Edelstein, Sari, 1980-
- Published
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2014]
- Copyright Date
- ©2014
- Physical Description
- xi, 226 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Contents
- Introduction -- Seditious newspapers and seduction novels -- Rereading the fallen woman and the penny press -- Category crisis in antebellum story-papers -- War journalism and eyewitness literature -- Colorful writing in the era of yellow journalism -- Afterword.
- Summary
- "While American literary history has long acknowledged the profound influence of journalism on canonical male writers, Sari Edelstein argues that American women writers were also influenced by a dynamic relationship with the mainstream press. From the early republic through the turn of the twentieth century, she offers a comprehensive reassessment of writers such as Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Harriet Jacobs, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Drawing on slave narratives, sentimental novels, and realist fiction, Edelstein examines how advances in journalism--including the emergence of the penny press, the rise of the story-paper, and the birth of eyewitness reportage--shaped not only a female literary tradition but also gender conventions themselves."--Publisher description.
- Subject(s)
- 1700 - 1899
- Women journalists—United States—History—19th century
- Women and journalism—United States—History—19th century
- Journalism and literature—United States—History
- American fiction—Women authors—History and criticism
- American fiction—18th century—History and criticism
- American fiction—19th century—History and criticism
- American fiction
- American fiction—Women authors
- Journalism and literature
- Women and journalism
- Women journalists
- Journalistin
- Schriftstellerin
- Women journalists—United States—History—18th century
- United States
- USA
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9780813935898 (cloth ; alk. paper)
081393589X (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780813935904 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0813935903 (pbk. ; alk. paper) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-217) and index.
- Source of Acquisition
- Purchased with funds from the John D. Vairo Libraries Endowment; 2015
- Endowment Note
- John D. Vairo Libraries Endowment
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