Sympathy, Madness, and Crime - Roggenkamp, Karen
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Explores how, in writing about insane asylums, the mentally ill, prisons, and criminals, women journalists in the late nineteeenth century deployed a gendered sympathetic language to excavate a professional space within a male-dominated workplace. These pioneering women exemplified how narrative sympathy opened female space within the "hard news” city room of America's largest newspapers.

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Explores how, in writing about insane asylums, the mentally ill, prisons, and criminals, women journalists in the late nineteeenth century deployed a gendered sympathetic language to excavate a professional space within a male-dominated workplace. These pioneering women exemplified how narrative sympathy opened female space within the "hard news” city room of America's largest newspapers.
Autorenporträt
Karen Roggenkamp is a professor of English at Texas A&M University-Commerce. Author of Narrating the News: New Journalism and Literary Genre in Late Nineteenth-Century American Newspapers and Fiction (The Kent State University Press, 2005), Roggenkamp's research interests center around periodical culture, the interplay between literature and journalism, and the history of children's literature. She has served as coeditor of American Periodicals, the scholarly journal of the Research Society for American Periodicals.