Alice Fahs: 2 books
Out on Assignment
Newspaper Women and the Making of Modern Public Space
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
Out on Assignment illuminates the lives and writings of a lost world of women who wrote for major metropolitan newspapers at the start of the twentieth century. Using extraordinary archival research, Alice Fahs unearths a richly networked community of female journalists drawn by the hundreds to major...
The Imagined Civil War
Popular Literature of the North and South, 1861-1865
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
In this groundbreaking work of cultural history, Alice Fahs explores a little-known and fascinating side of the Civil War--the outpouring of popular literature inspired by the conflict. From 1861 to 1865, authors and publishers in both the North and the South produced a remarkable variety of war-related...