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Author Edelstein, Sari, 1980- author.

Title Between the Novel and the News : the Emergence of American Women's Writing / Sari Edelstein
Published Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 226 pages) : illustrations
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."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-217) and index
Notes English
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Subject American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
American fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism
American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism
Journalism and literature -- United States -- History
Women and journalism -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Women journalists -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Women journalists -- United States -- History -- 18th century
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
American fiction
American fiction -- Women authors
Journalism and literature
Women and journalism
Women journalists
United States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2013039218
ISBN 9780813935911
0813935911
1306515971
9781306515979