Women Writers and Journalists in the Nineteenth-Century South [Paperback]

Examines women writers in the nineteenth-century South, offering new insights into women and gender roles.As the first book to examine black and white women editing and writing for magazines and newspapers in the nineteenth-century South, this study offers new insight into women and gender roles. While popular myths depict the region as the land of the shy and quiet southern belle, this book demonstrates that southern women were often politically active and outspoken. This book calls into question widespread assumptions about the nineteenth-century South, its intellectual and literary life, and the role of women in society.As the first book to examine black and white women editing and writing for magazines and newspapers in the nineteenth-century South, this study offers new insight into women and gender roles. While popular myths depict the region as the land of the shy and quiet southern belle, this book demonstrates that southern women were often politically active and outspoken. This book calls into question widespread assumptions about the nineteenth-century South, its intellectual and literary life, and the role of women in society.The first study to focus on white and black women journalists and writers both before and after the Civil War, this book offers fresh insight into southern intellectual life, the fight for women's rights, and gender ideology. Based on fresh research into southern magazines and newspapers, this book seeks to shift scholarly attention away from novelists and toward the rich and diverse periodical culture of the South between 1820 and 1900. Magazines were of central importance to the literary culture of the South because the region lacked the publishing centers that could produce large numbers of books. Easily portable, newspapers and magazines could be sent through the increasingly sophisticated postal system for relatively low subscription rates. The mix of content, from poetry to short fiction and literary reviews to practical advicl“&