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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Kent, Ohio : The Kent State University Press, [2016]Copyright date: �2016Description: 1 online resource (181 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781631012327 (e-book)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sympathy, madness, and crime : how four nineteenth-century journalists made the newspaper women's business.DDC classification:
  • 071/.3082 23
LOC classification:
  • PN4888.W66 R64 2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
No physical items for this record

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Description based on print version record.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.