图书简介

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.

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