Sympathy, Madness, and Crime : How Four Nineteenth-Century Journalists Made the Newspaper Women's Business.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (181 pages)
Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Sympathy and the American Newspaper Woman -- Chapter 1: Representing Institutions: Asylums and Prisons in American Periodicals -- Chapter 2: Scenes of Sympathy: Margaret Fuller's New-York Tribune Reportage -- Chapter 3: Entering Unceremoniously: Fanny Fern, Sympathy, and Tales of Confinement -- Chapter 4: Making a Spectacle of Herself: Nellie Bly, Stunt Reporting, and Marketed Sympathy -- Chapter 5: Sympathy and Sensation: Elizabeth Jordan, Lizzie Borden, and the Female Reporter in the Late Nineteenth Century -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
9781631012327
Journalism - Social aspects - United States - History - 19th century.