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Literate Zeal - Gender and the Making of a New Yorker Ethos (Paperback)
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Literate Zeal - Gender and the Making of a New Yorker Ethos (Paperback)
Series: Composition, Literacy, and Culture
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In Literate Zeal, Janet Carey Eldred examines the rise of women
magazine editors during the mid-twentieth century and reveals their
unheralded role in creating a literary aesthetic for the American
public. Between the sheets of popular magazines, editors offered
belles-lettres to the masses and, in particular, middle-class
women. Magazines became a place to find culture, humor, and
intellectual affirmation alongside haute couture. Eldred mines a
variety of literary archives, notably the correspondence of
Katharine Sargeant White of the New Yorker, to provide an
insiderAEs view of the publisher-editor-author dynamic. Here, among
WhiteAEs letters, memos, and markups, we see the deliberate shaping
of literature to create a New Yorker ethos. Through her discrete
phrasing, authors are coaxed by White to correct or wholly revise
their work. Stories or poems by famous writers are rejected for
being \u201cdizzying\u201d or \u201ctoo literate.\u201d With a
surgeonAEs skill, \u201cdisturbing\u201d issues such as sexuality
and race are extracted from manuscripts. Eldred chronicles the work
of women (and a few men) editors at the major womenAEs magazines of
the day. LadiesAE Home Journal, Mademoiselle, Vogue, and others
enacted an editorial style similar to that of the New Yorker by
offering literature, values, and culture to an educated and
aspiring middle class. Publishers effectively convinced readers
that middlebrow stories (and by association their audience) had
much loftier pursuits. And they were right. These publications
created and sustained a mass literacy never before seen in American
publishing.
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