Giving meanings to the world : the first U.S. foreign correspondents, 1838-1859 / Giovanna Dell'Orto.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dell'Orto, Giovanna, 1977-

Series:

Contributions to the study of mass media and communications ; no. 64.

Contributions to the study of mass media and communications, 0732-4456 ; no. 64

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foreign news--United States--History--19th century.

Foreign news.

Foreign correspondents--United States--Biography.

Foreign correspondents.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (161 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How did the first United States foreign correspondents help shape an American common sense about the rest of the world? This new study is the first to address this key question, examining the images of foreign countries that emerge from the first formally organized American foreign correspondence. Its focus is on the discourses of the world constructed in mid-19th-century correspondence, which provided American newspaper readers with their first cohesive view of the world outside its borders. By emphasizing the emergence of foreign correspondence across its first two decades (1838-1859), and by comparing it to images in editorial and congressional debates of the time, Giovanna Dell'Orto's analysis addresses the pivotal question of what meanings were ascribed to foreign cultures during this key time. Giving Meanings to the World also establishes for the first time in scholarly literature the early history of the content of foreign news and editorials in American newspapers while also exploring alternative constructions of foreign cultures in the correspondence for an African-American newspaper and by women writers. Unique in both subject matter and approach, this work gathers together and puts into perspective an array of information and discussion about how America viewed other nations in the early days of foreign correspondence.

Contents:

Cover

Recent Titles in Contributions to the Study of Mass Media and Communications

GIVING MEANINGS TO THE WORLD

CONTENTS

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

CHAPTER 1 EXPANDING MEANINGS OF THE "WORLD"

NOTES

CHAPTER 2 EARLY AMERICAN JOURNALISM AND NEWS FROM ABROAD

CHAPTER 3 THE SHAPING OF FOREIGN NEWS: IMPROVING ON THE SINGLE ELECTRICIAN AT A SEAPORT TOWN

THE IMPORTANCE OF FOREIGN NEWS IN MID-NINETEENTH-CENTURY NEWSPAPERS

NEWS DIGESTS AS ONE FORM OF FOREIGN NEWS

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS DEFINE THEIR ROLE IN A NEW OCCUPATION

CHAPTER 4 IMAGES OF THE "WORLD" IN MID-NINETEENTH-CENTURY U.S. CULTURE

CONSTRUCTIONS OF THE "WORLD" IN EDITORIALS

CONSTRUCTIONS OF THE "WORLD" IN FOREIGN POLICY DEBATES

CHAPTER 5 CONSTRUCTIONS OF THE "WORLD" IN THE MAINSTREAM PRESS

CHAPTER 6 ALTERNATIVE CONSTRUCTIONS OF THE "WORLD"

CONSTRUCTIONS OF THE "WORLD" IN WOMEN CORRESPONDENTS' WRITINGS

CONSTRUCTIONS OF THE "WORLD" IN AN AFRICAN AMERICAN NEWSPAPER

CHAPTER 7 THE EARLIEST AMERICAN FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE: GIVING MEANINGS TO THE WORLD

BIBLIOGRAPHY

BOOKS

ARTICLES

UNPUBLISHED SOURCES

INDEX

About the Author.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [135]-143) and index.

ISBN:

9798400657252

9786610468812

9781280468810

1280468815

9780313012778

0313012776

OCLC:

614588969