Voices of the Nation : Women and Public Speech in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0521102529
ISBN-13
9780521102520
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 12th, 2009
Print length
204 Pages
Weight
318 grams
Dimensions
15.20 x 22.80 x 1.70 cms
Product Classification:
United States of America, USALiterary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
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Throughout the nineteenth century, writers such as Henry James, William Dean Howells and Noah Webster displayed a fascination with women's speech. Voices of the Nation argues that these recurring descriptions also performed political work that has had a profound - though unspecified to date - impact on American culture.
Throughout the nineteenth century, American fiction displayed a fascination with women's speech - describing how women's voices sound, what happens when women speak and what reactions their speech produces, especially in their male listeners. Voices of the Nation argues that closer inspection of these recurring descriptions also performed political work that has had a profound - though unspecified to date - impact on American culture. Commentaries on the female voice were propounded by writers such as Henry James, William Dean Howells and Noah Webster, and these texts played a central role in attempts to define and enforce the radical social changes instituted by the emerging bourgeoisie.
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