Sympathy, Madness, and Crime

Karen Roggenkamp

Kent State University Press, 2016

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Explores how, in writing about insane asylums, the mentally ill, prisons, and criminals, women journalists in the late nineteeenth century deployed a gendered sympathetic language to excavate a professional space within a male-dominated workplace. These pioneering women exemplified how narrative sympathy opened female space within the “hard news” city room of America’s largest newspapers.

ISBN-13
9781606352878
ISBN-10
1606352873
Publisher
Kent State University Press
Year
2016
Publication date
2016-10-20
Pages
192
Dimensions
231x157x22
Weight
433