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Sympathy, madness, and crime : how four nineteenth-century journalists made the newspaper women's business / Karen Roggenkamp.
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Roggenkamp, Karen, 1969-
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English
Published/Created
Kent, Ohio : The Kent State University Press, [2016]
©2016
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xii, 168 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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PN4888.W66 R64 2016
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Subject(s)
Women journalists
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United States
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History
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19th century
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Women in journalism
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United States
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History
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19th century
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Journalism
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Social aspects
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United States
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History
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19th century
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Newspaper publishing
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United States
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History
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19th century
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Press
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United States
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History
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19th century
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Kent State University. Press
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Summary note
"In one of her escapades as a reporter for Joseph Pulitzer's New York World, the renowned Nellie Bly feigned insanity in 1889 and slipped, undercover, behind the grim walls of Blackwell's Island mental asylum. She emerged ten days later with a vivid tale about life in a madhouse. Her asylum articles merged sympathy and sensationalism, highlighting a developing professional identity--that of the American newspaperwoman. The Blackwell's Island story is just one example of how newsƯpaperwomen used sympathetic rhetoric to depict madness and crime while striving to establish their credentials as professional writers. Working against critics who would deny them access to the newsroom, Margaret Fuller, Fanny Fern, Nellie Bly, and Elizabeth Jordan subverted the charge that women were not emotionally equipped to work for mass-market newspapers. They transformed their supposed liabilities into professional assets, and Sympathy, Madness, and Crime explores how, in writing about insane asylums, the mentally ill, prisons, and criminals, each deployed a highly gendered sympathetic language to excavate a professional space within a male-dominated workplace"--Publisher's website.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages128-160) and index.
Contents
Sympathy and the American newspaper woman
Representing institutions: asylums and prisons in American periodicals
Scenes of sympathy: Margaret Fuller's New-York Tribune reportage
Entering unceremoniously: Fanny Fern, sympathy, and tales of confinement
Making a spectacle of herself: Nellie Bly, stunt reporting, and marketed sympathy
Sympathy and sensation: Elizabeth Jordan, Lizzie Borden, and the female reporter in the late nineteenth-century
Afterword.
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How four nineteenth-century journalists made the newspaper women's business
ISBN
9781606352878 ((hardcover ; : alkaline paper))
1606352873 ((hardcover ; : alkaline paper))
LCCN
2016008083
OCLC
935194538
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