Voices of the nation women and public speech in nineteenth-century American literature and culture
Record details
- ISBN: 0511005733 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9780511005732 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0521593743 (hbk.)
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Physical Description:
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1 online resource (x, 186 p.) - Publisher: New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Multi-User. Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Trinity University. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-180) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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Genre: | History. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Electronic books. |