Sympathy, madness, and crime :

Roggenkamp, Karen, 1969-

Sympathy, madness, and crime : how four nineteenth-century journalists made the newspaper women's business / Karen Roggenkamp. - 1 online resource (181 pages) : illustrations

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.

9781631012327 (e-book)


Women journalists--History--United States--19th century.
Women in journalism--History--United States--19th century.
Journalism--Social aspects--History--United States--19th century.
Newspaper publishing--History--United States--19th century.
Press--History--United States--19th century.


Electronic books.

PN4888.W66 / R64 2016eb

071/.3082