Sympathy, madness, and crime : how four nineteenth-century journalists made the newspaper women's business /
"In one of her escapades as a reporter for Joseph Pulitzer's New York World, the renowned Nellie Bly feigned insanity in 1889 and slipped, undercover, behind the grim walls of Blackwell's Island mental asylum. She emerged ten days later with a vivid tale about life in a madhouse. Her...
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| Language: | English |
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Kent, Ohio :
The Kent State University Press,
[2016]
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| ISBN: | 9781631012334 1631012339 9781631012327 1631012320 |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.