Partisans of the Southern Press (eBook)

Editorial Spokesmen of the Nineteenth Century

Carl R. Osthaus (Autor)

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2021
288 Seiten
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-9411-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Carl R. Osthaus examines the southern contribution to American Press history, from Thomas Ritchie's mastery of sectional politics and the New Orleans Picayune's popular voice and use of local color, to the emergence of progressive New South editors Henry Watterson, Francis Dawson, and Henry Grady, who imitated, as far as possible, the New Journalism of the 1880s. Unlike black and reform editors who spoke for minorities and the poor, the South's mainstream editors of the nineteenth century advanced the interests of the elite and helped create the myth of southern unity.The southern press diverged from national standards in the years of sectionalism, Civil War, and Reconstruction. Addicted to editorial diatribes rather than to news gathering, these southern editors of the middle period were violent, partisan, and vindictive. They exemplified and defended freedom of the press, but the South's press was free only because southern society was closed.This work broadens our understanding of journalism of the South, while making a valuable contribution to southern history.

Autor

Carl R. Osthaus is associate professor of history at Oakland University.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.12.2021
• Verlagsort: Lexington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik
• Schlagworte: Charleston Daily Courier • Charleston Mercury • Confederacy • Francis Warrington Dawson • Henry Watterson • John Forsyth • John Hampden Pleasants • John M. Daniel • Journalism • Martin Van Buren • Mobile Daily Register • New Orleans Daily Picayune • New South • New South journalism • Newspaper editors • Old South • Penny Press • Reconstruction journalism • Richard Yeadon • Richmond Enquirer • Robert Barnwell Rhett Jr. • southern newspapers • Southern States • Thomas Ritchie • US South • Virginia • wartime journalism
• ISBN-10: 0-8131-9411-3 / 0813194113
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-9411-0 / 9780813194110