Front-Page Girls: Women Journalists in American Culture and Fiction, 1880-1930
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Front-Page Girls: Women Journalists in American Culture and Fiction, 1880-1930
Front-Page Girls: Women Journalists in American Culture and Fiction, 1880-1930

Front-Page Girls: Women Journalists in American Culture and Fiction, 1880-1930

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Jean Marie Lutes (Author)  

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The first study of the role of the newspaperwoman in American literary culture at the turn of the twentieth century, this book recaptures the imaginative exchange between real-life reporters like Nellie Bly and Ida B. Wells and fictional characters like Henrietta Stackpole, the lady-correspondent in Henry James's Portrait of a Lady. It chronicles the exploits of a neglected group of American women writers and uncovers an alternative reporter-novelist tradition that runs counter to the more familiar story of gritty realism generated in male-dominated newsrooms. Taking up actual newspaper accounts written by women, fictional portrayals of female journalists, and the work of reporters-turned-novelists such as Willa Cather and Djuna Barnes, Jean Marie Lutes finds in women's journalism a rich and complex source for modern American fiction. Female journalists, cast as both standard-bearers and scapegoats of an emergent mass culture, created fictions of themselves that far outlasted the fleeting news value of the stories they covered. Front-Page Girls revives the spectacular stories of now-forgotten newspaperwomen who were not afraid of becoming the news themselves-the defiant few who wrote for the city desks of mainstream newspapers and resisted the growing demand to fill women's columns with fashion news and household hints. It also examines, for the first time, how women's journalism shaped the path from news to novels for women writers. CPSIA choking or other US hazard warning - No California Proposition 65 hazard warning necessary
Jean Marie Lutes is Assistant Professor of English at Villanova University.
  • Contributor: Jean Marie Lutes
  • Imprint: Cornell University Press
  • ISBN13: 9780801474125
  • Number of Pages: 240
  • Packaged Dimensions: 152x229x18mm
  • Packaged Weight: 454
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Cornell University Press
  • Release Date: 2007-10-24
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Jean Marie Lutes is Assistant Professor of English at Villanova University.

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