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The Southern Press: Literary Legacies and the Challenge of Modernity
Northwestern University Press, 2009 Paper: 978-0-8101-2394-6 Library of Congress Classification PN4893.C78 2009 Dewey Decimal Classification 071.5
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
ABOUT THIS BOOK
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 non-reformist literary tradition that produced liberal southern editors, from Henry Grady to Ralph McGill, who were viewed in the North as both explainers of and dissidents from the South. See other books on: American newspapers | Challenge | Journalism | Modernity | Racism in the press See other titles from Northwestern University Press |
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The Southern Press: Literary Legacies and the Challenge of Modernity
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Northwestern University Press, 2009
Paper: 978-0-8101-2394-6
Paper: 978-0-8101-2394-6
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 non-reformist literary tradition that produced liberal southern editors, from Henry Grady to Ralph McGill, who were viewed in the North as both explainers of and dissidents from the South.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
