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Voices of the nation : women and public speech in nineteenth-century American literature and culture /
Throughout the nineteenth century, American fiction displayed a fascination with women's speech - describing how women's voices sound and what reactions their speech produces, especially in their male listeners. Closer inspection of these recurring descriptions reveals that they also perfo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1998.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;
114. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : gender, speech, and nineteenth-century American life
- Bawdy talk : the politics of women's public speech in Henry James's The Bostonians and Sarah J. Hale's The lecturess
- "Foul-mouthed women" : disembodiment and public discourse in Herman Melville's Pierre and E.D.E.N Southworth's The fatal marriage
- Incarnate words : nativism, nationalism, and the female body in Maria Monk's Awful disclosures
- Southern oratory and the slavery debate in Caroline Lee Hentz's The planters northern bride and Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the life of a slave girl
- Partners in speech : reforming labor, class, and the working woman's body in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's The silent partner
- "Queer trimmings" : dressing, cross-dressing, and woman's suffrage in Lillie Devereaux Blake's Fettered for life
- Conclusion : women and political activism at the turn into the twentieth century.