Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-229) and index.
American women writers and the periodical: creating a constituency, opening a dialogue / Aleta Feinsod Cane and Susan Alves -- Margaret Fuller's Tribune dispatches and the nineteenth-century body politic / Annamaria Formichella Elsden -- Gendering gilded age periodical professionalism: Reading Harriet Beecher Stowe's Hearth and home prescriptions for women's writing / Sarah Robbins -- Parental guidance: disciplinary intimacy and the rise of women's regionalism / Janet Gebhart Auten -- Kate Chopin and the periodical: revisiting the re-vision / Bonnie James Shaker -- The heroine of her own story: subversion of traditional periodical marriage tropes in the short fiction of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Forerunner / Aleta Feinsod Cane -- Emma Goldman, Mother Earth, the Little magazine impulse in modern America / Craig Monk -- "An ardor that was human, and a power that was art": Rebecca Harding Davis and the art of the periodical / Michele L. Mock -- Lowell's female factory workers, poetic voice, and the periodical / Susan Alves -- Redefining the borders of local color fiction: María Cristina Mena's short stories in the Century magazine / Amy Doherty -- Zitkala-Sä and the commercial magazine apparatus / Charles Hannon -- "A deeper purpose" in the serialized novels of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper / Michelle Campbell Toohey.
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"The Only Efficient Instrument" examines farsighted women writers in nineteenth-century America whose pioneering use of newspapers and magazines had a vital impact on the political and intellectual communities of their day."
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Only efficient instrument.
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American literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
American literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
American literature-- Women authors-- History and criticism.
American periodicals-- History.
Journalism-- United States-- History.
Women and literature-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
Women and literature-- United States-- History-- 20th century.