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Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Yellow Newspaper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Yellow Newspaper sari edelstein Brandeis University n November 1909, Charlotte Perkins Gilman began publishing the Forerunner¸ the monthly periodical that she would write and edit for the next seven years. Its mission, as she described it, was to "stimulate thought; to arouse hope, courage and impatience," and to "express ideas which need a special medium" (Forerunner 32). She opened the first issue of the Forerunner with a poem in which she explicitly introduced her project as a response to an increasingly sensational press: "Then This" The news-stands bloom with magazines, They flame, they blaze indeed; So bright the cover-colors glow, So clear the startling stories show, So vivid their pictorial scenes, That he who runs may read. Then This: It strives in prose and verse, Thought, fancy, fact, and fun, To tell the things we ought to know, To point the way we ought to go, So audibly to bless and curse, That he who reads may run. In the first verse, Gilman describes the popular press almost exclusively in terms of its visual distinctiveness: the "news-stands bloom" and the "coverlegacy, vol. 24, no. 1, 2007. pp. 72­92. copyright © 2007 the university of nebraska press colors glow." In the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Legacy University of Nebraska Press

Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Yellow Newspaper

Edelstein, Sari.
Legacy , Volume 24 (1) – Jun 12, 2007
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sari edelstein Brandeis University n November 1909, Charlotte Perkins Gilman began publishing the Forerunner¸ the monthly periodical that she would write and edit for the next seven years. Its mission, as she described it, was to "stimulate thought; to arouse hope, courage and impatience," and to "express ideas which need a special medium" (Forerunner 32). She opened the first issue of the Forerunner with a poem in which she explicitly introduced her project as a response to an increasingly sensational press: "Then This" The news-stands bloom with magazines, They flame, they blaze indeed; So bright the cover-colors glow, So clear the startling stories show, So vivid their pictorial scenes, That he who runs may read. Then This: It strives in prose and verse, Thought, fancy, fact, and fun, To tell the things we ought to know, To point the way we ought to go, So audibly to bless and curse, That he who reads may run. In the first verse, Gilman describes the popular press almost exclusively in terms of its visual distinctiveness: the "news-stands bloom" and the "coverlegacy, vol. 24, no. 1, 2007. pp. 72­92. copyright © 2007 the university of nebraska press colors glow." In the

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