The Southern Press: Literary Legacies and the Challenge of Modernity
(Part of the Medill Visions of the American Press Series)
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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.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0810123940
ISBN13:9780810123946
Release Date:May 2009
Publisher:Northwestern University Press
Length:342 Pages
Weight:0.90 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 5.2" x 8.0"
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