Newspaper confessions : a history of advice columns in a pre-internet age

Newspaper confessions : a history of advice columns in a pre-internet age / Julie Golia.

"Newspaper Confessions chronicles the history of the newspaper advice column, a genre that has shaped Americans' relationships with media, their experiences with popular therapy, and their virtual interactions across generations. Emerging in the 1890s, advice columns became unprecedented v...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Golia, Julie (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Advice columns > United States.
American newspapers > History.
Newspapers > Sections, columns, etc.
Advice columns
American newspapers
United States
History
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Making Advice Modern: The Birth of the Newspaper Advice Column
  • 2. America's Confessional: Advice Columns and Their Readers
  • 3. Queen of Heartaches: The Advice Columnist as Icon and Journalist
  • 4. Advising the Race: Princess Mysteria and the Black Feminist Advice Tradition
  • 5. The Modern "Experience": Loneliness, Anonymity, and the Virtual Community

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