The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York - Historical Studies of Urban America - Patricia Cline Cohen - Books - The University of Chicago Press - 9780226112343 - May 1, 2008
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The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York - Historical Studies of Urban America


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Including short tales of urban life, editorials on prostitution, and moralizing rants against homosexuality, this work presents selections that epitomize a distinct form of urban journalism. Providing an overview of this colorful reportage, its editors, and its audience, it examines nineteenth-century ideas of sexuality and freedom.


272 pages, 49 halftones, 2 figures

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released May 1, 2008
ISBN13 9780226112343
Publishers The University of Chicago Press
Pages 288
Dimensions 150 × 220 × 10 mm   ·   397 g

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