{"product_id":"literate-zeal-gender-and-the-making-of-a-new-yorker-ethos-paperback","title":"Literate Zeal: Gender and the Making of a New Yorker Ethos - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJanet Eldred\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Eldred mines a variety of literary archives, notably the correspondence of Katharine Sargeant White of the New Yorker, to provide an insider s view of the publisher-editor-author dynamic. Here, among White s 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 surgeon s skill, \\u201cdisturbing\\u201d issues such as sexuality and race are extracted from manuscripts. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Eldred chronicles the work of women (and a few men) editors at the major women s magazines of the day. Ladies  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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJanet Carey Eldred\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of English, affiliate faculty in the Department of Gender and Women's Studies, and the founding director of the Writing Initiative Studio in Engineering (WISE) at the University of Kentucky. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eSentimental Attachments: Essays, Creative Nonfiction, and Other Experiments in Composition\u003c\/i\u003e and coauthor of \u003ci\u003eImagining Rhetoric: Composing Women of the Early United States.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.64 x 8.27 x 5.37 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 08, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52960127648051,"sku":"9780822963271","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/a5mcJWab4M9780822963271.webp?v=1768478087","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/literate-zeal-gender-and-the-making-of-a-new-yorker-ethos-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}