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Women Writers and Journalists in the Nineteenth-Century South

Wells, Jonathan Daniel

2011

Overview

The first study to focus on white and black women journalists and writers both before and after the Civil War, this book offers fresh insight into Southern intellectual life, the fight for women's rights and gender ideology. Based on new research into Southern magazines and newspapers, this book seeks to shift scholarly attention away from novelists and toward the rich and diverse periodical culture of the South between 1820 and 1900. Magazines were of central importance to the literary culture of the South because the region lacked the publishing centers that could produce large numbers of books. As editors, contributors, correspondents and reporters in the nineteenth century, Southern women entered traditionally male bastions when they embarked on careers in journalism. In so doing, they opened the door to calls for greater political and social equality at the turn of the twentieth century.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: 19th century / American literature / American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism / American literature -- Southern States -- History and criticism / American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism / History / Journalism / Journalism -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century / Journalism and literature / Journalism and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century / Literature / Literature publishing -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century / Periodicals / Periodicals -- Publishing -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century / Publishing / Southern States / Women / Women -- Press coverage -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century / Women in journalism / Women in journalism -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century / Women's periodicals, American / Women's periodicals, American -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
• ISBN: 110764979X, 9781107649798, 9781107012660, 110701266X