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The Southern Press. Literary Legacies and the Challenge of Modernity.
Doug Cumming
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Paperback. The Southern journalist was more likely to be a Romantic and an intellectual. The region's journalism was personal, colorful, and steeped in the classics. This title suggests that the South's journalism struck a literary pose closer to the older English press than to the democratic penny press or bourgeois magazines of the urban North. Series Editor(s): Abrahamson, David. Series: Medill School of Journalism Visions of the American Press. Num Pages: 248 pages, 18 b/w images. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFD; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 133 x 25. Weight in Grams: 408.
The Southern Press suggests that the South's journalism struck a literary pose closer to the older English press than to the democratic penny press or bourgeois magazines of the urban North. The Southern journalist was more likely to be a Romantic and an intellectual. The region's journalism was personal, colorful, and steeped in the classics. News was less important than narrative. Neither 'public' nor 'opinion' had much meaning in a racially segregated South. Paradoxically, it was this nonreformist literary tradition that produced liberal southern editors, from Henry Grady to Ralph McGill, who were viewed in the North as both explainers ... Read more
The Southern Press suggests that the South's journalism struck a literary pose closer to the older English press than to the democratic penny press or bourgeois magazines of the urban North. The Southern journalist was more likely to be a Romantic and an intellectual. The region's journalism was personal, colorful, and steeped in the classics. News was less important than narrative. Neither 'public' nor 'opinion' had much meaning in a racially segregated South. Paradoxically, it was this nonreformist literary tradition that produced liberal southern editors, from Henry Grady to Ralph McGill, who were viewed in the North as both explainers ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Series
Medill School of Journalism Visions of the American Press
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810123946
SKU
V9780810123946
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About Doug Cumming
Doug Cumming is an assistant professor of journalism at Washington and Lee University, a former Nieman Fellow, and a George Polk Award - winning journalist.
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