Literate Zeal - Gender and the Making of a New Yorker Ethos

Examines the rise of women magazine editors during the mid-twentieth century and reveals their unheralded role in creating a literary aesthetic for the American public. Janet Carey Eldred mines a variety of literary archives, notably the correspondence of Katharine Sargeant White of the New Yorker, to provide an insider's view of the publisher-editor-author dynamic.

About the author

Janet Carey Eldred is professor of English, affiliate faculty in the Department of Gender and Women's Studies, and the founding director of the Writing Initiative Studio in Engineering (WISE) at the University of Kentucky. She is the author of Sentimental Attachments: Essays, Creative Nonfiction, and Other Experiments in Composition and coauthor of Imagining Rhetoric: Composing Women of the Early United States.

Summary

New in PaperJanet Carey Eldred examines the rise of women magazine editors during the mid-twentieth century and reveals their unheralded role in creating a literary aesthetic for the American public.

Product details

• Authors: Janet Eldred, Janet Carey Eldred
• Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.10.2014
• EAN: 9780822963271
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-6327-1
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 136 mm x 210 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 304 g
• Series: Pittsburgh Series in Compositi; Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy and Culture; Pitt Series in Compostion, Literacy and Culture; Composition, Literacy, and Cul; Composition, Literacy, and Culture; Pittsburgh Series in Compositi
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches