Voices of the Nation: Women and Public Speech in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture

ISBN: 9780521102520 出版年：1998 页码：201 Caroline Field Levander Cambridge University Press

Introduction The Voice of the Nation: Gender, Speech, and Nineteenth-Century American life 1. Bawdy talk: The Politics of Women's Speech in Henry James's The Bostonians and Sarah J. Hale's The Lecturess 2. 'Foul Mouthed Women': Disembodiment and Public Discourse in Herman Melville's Pierre and E.D.E.N. Southworth's The Fatal Marriage 3. Incarnate Words: Nativism, Nationalism, and the Female Body in Maria Monk's Awful Disclosures 4. Partners in Speech: Reforming Labor, Class, and the Working Woman's Body in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's The Silent Partner 5. 'Queer Trimmings': Dressing, Cross-Dressing, and Women's Suffrage in Lillie Deereux Blake's Fettered for Life 6. Southern Oratory and The Slavery Debate in Caroline Lee Hentz's Planter's Northern Bride and Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Conclusion 'Every Wrong that Needs a Voice': Women and Political Activism at the Turn into the Twentieth Century.