Language, gender, and citizenship in American literature, 1789-1919
By: by Amy Dunham Strand.
Series: Studies in American popular history and culture
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9780415991933
Subjects: American literature -- 19th century -- Criticism and interpretation; Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century; English philology; Gender identity in literature; Citizenship in literature; United States -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: "a band of national union": literature, gender, and American language ideologies; title: Hope Leslie, women's petitions, and political discourse in Jacksonian America; title: Vocal (im)propriety and the management of sociopolitical mobility in the wide, wide world and Ragged Dick; title: The (re)construction of dialect and African American (dis)enfranchisement in Charles W. Chesnutt's writings; title: Henry James and the linguistic domestication of women and immigrants at the turn of the century coda; title: Herland and "the future of English": considering language, gender, and national identity in early 20th-century America.