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The artistry of anger : black and white women's literature in America, 1820-1860 /

In this study, Linda M. Grasso demonstrates that using anger as a mode of analysis and the basis of an aesthetic transforms our understanding of American women's literary history. She explores how black and white 19th-century women writers defined, expressed and dramatized anger.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Grasso, Linda M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, ©2002.
Colección:Gender & American culture.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. The anger paradigm: theories and contexts. Anger as analysis and aesthetic in American women's literature
  • Using the anger paradigm: the antebellum period as case study
  • Suppressing treasonous anger: nation-building and gendered ideologies of anger in antebellum America
  • pt. 2. Anger in the house and in the text: four case studies. Anger, exile, and restitution in Lydia Maria Child's Hobomok
  • Maria W. Stewart's inspired wrath
  • Masking anger as it is spoken: Fanny Fern's Ruth Hall
  • The text as courtroom: judgment, vengeance, and punishment in Harriet Wilson's Our Nig.