| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.4

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Jean Marie Lutes. Front Page Girls: Women Journalists in American Culture and Fiction, 1880–1930. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. 2006. Pp. xi, 226. $45.00.

Jean Marie Lutes has written an ambitious and provocative book about a select group of American women journalists working between 1880 and 1930. It traces how the "figure of the newspaperwoman" became a kind of emblem of modernity, carrying new expressive possibility while freighted with embodying the cultural contradictions of the era, especially those around race, sexual propriety, and the moral ambiguities of mass culture. Through this interpretative lens, Lutes also offers a corrective to the standard account of the rise literary modernism, a narrative that has presumed an exclusive masculine fraternity made up of hardboiled political journalists and realist, naturalist, and avant-garde fiction writers. Lutes interrupts and complicates this line of descent by arguing that the newspaperwoman's strategy of "embodying publicity" in journalism provides both an "alternative reporter-novelist" tradition in American letters as well as a formidable "other" against which self-conscious moderns like Henry James and Willa Cather had to define themselves.

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