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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 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.

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.

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Title Literate Zeal: Gender and the Making of a New Yorker Ethos
Author Janet Eldred
Binding Paperback
Pages 248
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date 2014-10-08
Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
ISBN 9780822963271 / 0822963272
Weight 0.67 lbs (0.30 kg)
Dimensions 8.27 x 5.37 x 0.64 in (21.01 x 13.64 x 1.63 cm)
Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Women's Interest
Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
Library of Congress subjects Women and literature - United States, American periodicals - History - 20th century
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2011048861
Dewey Decimal Code 070.510

About the author

Janet Carey Eldred 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 Sentimental Attachments: Essays, Creative Nonfiction, and Other Experiments in Composition and coauthor of Imagining Rhetoric: Composing Women of the Early United States.

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