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04002aam a22005298i 4500 001 802B3B8EB85D11E6BDBAC4DDDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20161202010137 008 160329t20162016ohua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2016008083 020 $a 1606352873 020 $a 9781606352878 035 $a (OCoLC)935194538 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BTCTA $d OCLCO $d YDXCP $d BDX $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d KSU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PN4888.W66 $b R64 2016 082 00 $a 071/.3082 $2 23 100 1 $a Roggenkamp, Karen, $d 1969- $e author. 245 10 $a Sympathy, madness, and crime : $b how four nineteenth-century journalists made the newspaper women's business / $c Karen Roggenkamp. 246 30 $a How four nineteenth-century journalists made the newspaper women's business 264 1 $a Kent, Ohio : $b The Kent State University Press, $c [2016] 300 $a xii, 168 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "In one of her escapades as a reporter for Joseph PulitzerÌs New York World, the renowned Nellie Bly feigned insanity in 1889 and slipped, undercover, behind the grim walls of BlackwellÌs 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 a developing professional identityÌthat of the American newspaperwoman. The BlackwellÌs Island story is just one example of how newsâƯpaperwomen used sympathetic rhetoric to depict madness and crime while striving to establish their credentials as professional writers. Working against critics who would deny them access to the newsroom, Margaret Fuller, Fanny Fern, Nellie Bly, and Elizabeth Jordan subverted the charge that women were not emotionally equipped to work for mass-market newspapers. They transformed their supposed liabilities into professional assets, and Sympathy, Madness, and Crime explores how, in writing about insane asylums, the mentally ill, prisons, and criminals, each deployed a highly gendered sympathetic language to excavate a professional space within a male-dominated workplace"--Publisher's website. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages150-160) and index. 505 0 $a 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. 650 0 $a Women journalists $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Women in journalism $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Journalism $x History $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Newspaper publishing $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Press $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 7 $a Journalism $x Social aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00984087 650 7 $a Newspaper publishing. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01037081 650 7 $a Press. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01075837 650 7 $a Women in journalism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01177907 650 7 $a Women journalists. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01178072 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 710 2 $a Kent State University. $b Press, $e publisher. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Roggenkamp, Karen, 1969- author. $t Sympathy, madness, and crime. $d Kent, Ohio : The Kent State University Press, [2016] $z 9781631012327 $w (DLC) 2016014950 941 $a 3 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20230718092629.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191214023939.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20161202014553.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=802B3B8EB85D11E6BDBAC4DDDAD10320 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search