Sympathy, madness, and crime : how four nineteenth-century journalists made the newspaper women's bu...
Sympathy, madness, and crime : how four nineteenth-century journalists made the newspaper women's bu...
Sympathy, madness, and crime : how four nineteenth-century journalists made the newspaper women's business / Karen Roggenkamp.
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Kent, Ohio : The Kent State University Press, [2016]
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G 2016/4925
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English
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xii, 168 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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: Nell...
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Kent, Ohio : The Kent State University Press, [2016]
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Ohio
Date Published
[2016]
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"In one of her escapades as a reporter for Joseph Pulitzer's New York World, the renowned Nellie Bly feigned insanity in 1889 and slipped, undercover, behind the grim walls of Blackwell's Island mental asylum. She emerged ten days later with a vivid tale about life in a madhouse. Her asylum articles merged sympathy and sensationalism, highlighting...
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Sympathy, madness, and crime : how four nineteenth-century journalists made the newspaper women's business / Karen Roggenkamp.
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How four nineteenth-century journalists made the newspaper women's business
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Includes bibliographical references (pages150-160) and index.
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©2016
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G 2016/4925
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74VKVvQOQpbl
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVvQOQpbl
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ISBN
1606352873 hardcover ; alkaline paper
9781606352878 hardcover ; alkaline paper
DDC
071.3082
MMS ID
991024039012602626
