Partisans of the Southern Press : Editorial Spokesmen of the Nineteenth Century / Carl R. Osthaus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Osthaus, Carl R., 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Press and politics--Southern States.

Press and politics.

Newspaper editors--Southern States.

Newspaper editors.

Press--Southern States--History--19th century.

Press.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (309 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 diver

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The World of the Southern Editor; 2. Between Nationalism and Nullification: The Editorial Career of Thomas Ritchie; 3. The Rise of a Metropolitan Giant: The New Orleans Daily Picayune, 1837-1850; 4. The Triumph of Sectional Journalism: The Charleston Daily Courier and CharlestonMercury on the Eve of Secession; 5. A Study of Wartime Journalism: John M. Daniel and the Confederacy; 6. Resisting Reconstruction: John Forsyth and the Mobile Daily Register; 7. Three Giants of New South Journalism: The Formative Years

8. Three Giants of the New South: Triumph in the Eighties9. Conclusion: Southern Journalism, from Old South to New South; Notes; A Note on Sources; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [214]-285) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813194110

0813194113

9780813161402

0813161401

OCLC:

903963977