The Southern Press: Literary Legacies and the Challenge of Modernity

by Doug Cumming

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...

• 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"