Women Writers and Journalists in the Nineteenth-Century South

Examines women writers in the nineteenth-century South, offering new insights into women and gender roles.

List of contents

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.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Daniel Wells, Jonathan Daniel (Temple University Wells, Wells Jonathan Daniel
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.10.2013
• EAN: 9781107649798
• ISBN: 978-1-107-64979-8
• No. of pages: 258
• Series: Cambridge Studies on the Ameri; Cambridge Studies on the American South
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, HISTORY / Women, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, c 1500 onwards to present day, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Social and cultural history, Gender studies: women, History of the Americas, Gender studies: women and girls, US South