Between the Novel and the News: The Emergence of American Women's Writing

by Sari Edelstein

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813935903
• ISBN13: 9780813935904
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.8"