| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 226 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-217) and index. |
| 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. Excluded from formal politics and lacking the vote, women writers were deft analysts of the prevalent tropes and aesthetic gestures of journalism, which they alternately relied upon and resisted in their efforts to influence public opinion and to intervene in political debates. Ultimately, Between the Novel and the News is a project of recovery that transforms our understanding of the genesis and the development of American women's writing". |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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American fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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| Chronological Term |
18th century |
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American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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American fiction -- Women authors. |
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Journalism and literature -- United States -- History.
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Journalism and literature. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Women and journalism -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Women and journalism. |
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Women journalists -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Women journalists. |
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Women journalists -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
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| Chronological Term |
1700-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Edelstein, Sari, 1980- Between the novel and the news. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, ©2014 9780813935898 (DLC) 2013039218 (OCoLC)862347689 |
| ISBN |
9780813935911 (electronic book) |
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0813935911 (electronic book) |
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1306515971 (electronic book) |
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9781306515979 (electronic book) |
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9780813935898 (cloth : alkaline paper) |
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081393589X (cloth : alkaline paper) |
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9780813935904 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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0813935903 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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