| Description |
1 online resource (241 pages) : illustrations |
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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." |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-229) and index |
| Notes |
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 |
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| 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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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Women Authors.
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American literature
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American literature -- Women authors
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American periodicals
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Journalism
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Women and literature
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United States
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Cane, Aleta Feinsod, 1949-
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Alves, Susan, 1958-
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| ISBN |
1587294001 |
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9781587294006 |
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