| Description |
1 online resource (241 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-229) and index. |
| Contents |
American women writers and the periodical: creating a constituency, opening a dialogue / Aleta Feinsod Cane and Susan Alves -- Margaret Fuller's Tribune dispatches and the nineteenth-century body politic / Annamaria Formichella Elsden -- Gendering gilded age periodical professionalism: Reading Harriet Beecher Stowe's Hearth and home prescriptions for women's writing / Sarah Robbins -- Parental guidance: disciplinary intimacy and the rise of women's regionalism / Janet Gebhart Auten -- Kate Chopin and the periodical: revisiting the re-vision / Bonnie James Shaker -- The heroine of her own story: subversion of traditional periodical marriage tropes in the short fiction of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Forerunner / Aleta Feinsod Cane -- Emma Goldman, Mother Earth, the Little magazine impulse in modern America / Craig Monk -- "An ardor that was human, and a power that was art": Rebecca Harding Davis and the art of the periodical / Michele L. Mock -- Lowell's female factory workers, poetic voice, and the periodical / Susan Alves -- Redefining the borders of local color fiction: María Cristina Mena's short stories in the Century magazine / Amy Doherty -- Zitkala-Sä and the commercial magazine apparatus / Charles Hannon -- "A deeper purpose" in the serialized novels of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper / Michelle Campbell Toohey. |
| Summary |
"The Only Efficient Instrument" examines farsighted women writers in nineteenth-century America whose pioneering use of newspapers and magazines had a vital impact on the political and intellectual communities of their day." |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Journalism -- United States -- History.
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American periodicals -- History.
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| Chronological Term |
1800-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Added Author |
Cane, Aleta Feinsod, 1949-
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Alves, Susan, 1958-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Only efficient instrument. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2001 0877457808 (DLC) 2001027987 (OCoLC)46969842 |
| ISBN |
1587294001 (electronic bk.) |
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9781587294006 (electronic bk.) |
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9780877457800 |
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0877457808 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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