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Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Daniel Wells is Associate Professor of History at Temple University. He is the author or editor of six books, including The Origins of the Southern Middle Class: 1820-1861 and Entering the Fray: Gender, Politics, and Culture in the New South. He is a co-editor of a forthcoming collection of essays, The Southern Middle Class in the Nineteenth Century. He has published several reviews and articles on nineteenth-century America, the Civil War, slavery, gender, politics, class and intellectual life, in journals such as The Journal of Southern History, American Nineteenth-Century History and the Maryland Historical Magazine. Klappentext Examines women writers in the nineteenth-century South, offering new insights into women and gender roles. Zusammenfassung This is the first book to examine women writers in the nineteenth-century South. While popular myths depict the shy and quiet Southern belle! this book demonstrates that Southern women were often politically active and outspoken! and calls into question widespread assumptions about the nineteenth-century South. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; Part I. Foundations: 2. Reading, literary magazines, and the debate over gender equality; 3. Education, gender, and community in the nineteenth-century South; Part II. Women Journalists and Writers in the Old South: 4. Periodicals and literary culture; 5. Female authors and magazine writing; 6. Antebellum women editors and journalists; Part III. Women Journalists and Writers in the New South: 7. New South periodicals and a new literary culture; 8. Writing a new South for women; 9. Postwar women and professional journalism.
