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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.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill, N.C. :
University of North Carolina Press,
©2002.
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| Series: | Gender & American culture.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.