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"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 descriptions reveals that they also performed political work that has had a profound - though until now unspecified - impact on American culture." "Caroline Leyander illustrates how commentaries on the female voice, propounded by such writers as Henry James, William Dean Howells, and Noah Webster, played a central role in attempts to define and enforce the radical social changes instituted by the emerging bourgeoisie. Levander also shows how nineteenth-century women authors depicted the female voice as a central theme in their novels and how these portrayals affected public speech."--BOOK JACKET.
目录
Cover 1
Half-title 4
Title 6
Copyright 7
Dedication 8
Contents 9
Acknowledgments 11
Introduction Gender, Speech, and Nineteenth-Century American Life 13
1 Bawdy Talk The Politics of Women's Public Speech in Henry James's The Bostonians and Sarah J. Hale's The Lecturess 24
Twanging, \ 27
Boston lecturesses: singing bad music 35
2 \ 47
Strong coarse talk 51
Idolatrous devotion 57
Everything to avenge 62
3 Incarnate Words Nativism, Nationalism, and the Female Body in Maria Monk's Awful Disclosures 69
American anti-catholicism 69
From virgin soil to \ 73
Breaking silence 78
Speaking out 85
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 88
Fiery, voluptuous, indolent: southern oratory 89
A heroine, for all that 97
Stinging, scorching words 102
5 Partners in Speech Reforming Labor, Class, and the Working Woman's Body in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's The Silent Partner 110
Death or dishonor 112
God's words - and catty's 119
The politics of identity and difference 127
6 \ 129
Ever at masquerade 131
Stopping their talk 138
The caricature that lurks in clothes 144
Conclusion 153
Notes 159
Select Bibliography 179
Index 193
Half-title 4
Title 6
Copyright 7
Dedication 8
Contents 9
Acknowledgments 11
Introduction Gender, Speech, and Nineteenth-Century American Life 13
1 Bawdy Talk The Politics of Women's Public Speech in Henry James's The Bostonians and Sarah J. Hale's The Lecturess 24
Twanging, \ 27
Boston lecturesses: singing bad music 35
2 \ 47
Strong coarse talk 51
Idolatrous devotion 57
Everything to avenge 62
3 Incarnate Words Nativism, Nationalism, and the Female Body in Maria Monk's Awful Disclosures 69
American anti-catholicism 69
From virgin soil to \ 73
Breaking silence 78
Speaking out 85
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 88
Fiery, voluptuous, indolent: southern oratory 89
A heroine, for all that 97
Stinging, scorching words 102
5 Partners in Speech Reforming Labor, Class, and the Working Woman's Body in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's The Silent Partner 110
Death or dishonor 112
God's words - and catty's 119
The politics of identity and difference 127
6 \ 129
Ever at masquerade 131
Stopping their talk 138
The caricature that lurks in clothes 144
Conclusion 153
Notes 159
Select Bibliography 179
Index 193
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