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

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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 descri, Voices of the Nation: Women and Public Speech in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture
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  • Voices of the Nation: Women and Public Speech in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture
  • Written by author Levander, Caroline Field
  • Published by Cambridge University Press, 2009
  • 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 descri
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Gender, Speech, and Nineteenth-Century American Life 1
1 Bawdy Talk: The Politics of Women's Public Speech in Henry James's The Bostonians and Sarah J. Hale's The Lecturess 12
2 "Foul-Mouthed Women": Disembodiment and Public Discourse in Herman Melville's Pierre and E. D. E. N. Southworth's The Fatal Marriage 35
3 Incarnate Words: Nativism, Nationalism, and the Female Body in Maria Monk's Awful Disclosures 57
4 Southern Oratory and the Slavery Debate in Caroline Lee Hentz's The Planter's Northern Bride and Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 76
5 Partners in Speech: Reforming Labor, Class, and the Working Woman's Body in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's The Silent Partner 98
6 "Queer Trimmings": Dressing, Cross-dressing, and Woman's Suffrage in Lillie Devereux Blake's Fettered for Life 117
Conclusion: Women and Political Activism at the Turn into the Twentieth Century 141
Notes 147
Select Bibliography 167
Index 181


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