Between the Novel and the News
Subtitle: The Emergence of American Women's Writing
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780813935904
Subjects: American fiction, women authors; American fiction, history and criticism, 19th century; Women journalists
Description: "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."--Publisher description.