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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798720903321

Autore

Roggenkamp Karen <1969->

Titolo

Sympathy, madness, and crime : how four nineteenth-century journalists made the newspaper women's business / / Karen Roggenkamp

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Kent, Ohio : , : The Kent State University Press, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

1-63101-232-0

1-63101-233-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (181 p.)

Disciplina

071/.3082

Soggetti

Women journalists - United States - History - 19th century

Women in journalism - United States - History - 19th century

Journalism - Social aspects - United States - History - 19th century

Newspaper publishing - United States - History - 19th century

Press - United States - History - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Sympathy and the American newspaper woman -- Representing institutions: asylums and prisons in American periodicals -- Scenes of sympathy in 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.