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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Lorman Ratner; Paula T Kaufman; Dwight L Teeter |
| ISBN: | 9780252034534 0252034538 |
| OCLC Number: | 269282208 |
| Description: | xii, 147 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Communicating the prosperity-morality paradox during the mid-nineteenth-century publishing boom -- New York's newspaper giants during the anxious 1850s -- Two newspapers, south and west -- Harper's magazine and the Southern literary messenger : self-styled guardians of the republic -- Godey's lady's book : the guide for middle-class women -- Merchant magazines : the businessman's guide and conscience -- Women writers : defending the Christian republic -- Male writers : wrestling with the marketplace -- Past times and faraway places. |
| Responsibility: | Lorman A. Ratner, Paula T. Kaufman, and Dwight L. Teeter, Jr. |
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"An essential contribution to our understanding of the competing philosophical beliefs during an era of American culture that historians have seriously slighted in the pursuit of studying the Civil War." Hazel Dicken-Garcia, coauthor of Hated Ideas and the American Civil War Press Read more...
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