Her voice will be on the side of right
Subtitle: gender and power in women's antebellum antislavery fiction
By: Holly M. Kent
Contributors: Kent State University. Press
Series: American abolitionism and antislavery; American abolitionism and antislavery
Publisher: The Kent State University Press
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Kent, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9781606353172; 9781631012778
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: American fiction; Women authors; History and criticism; Antislavery movements in literature; Slavery in literature; Power (Social sciences) in literature; Sex role in literature
Other titles: Gender and power in women's antebellum antislavery fiction
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-196) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction.; title: "How a woman touches the world's heart" : women and antislavery fiction in the Antebellum Era --; title: "Her heart was touched with the wrongs of the injured ones" : the emergence of women's antislavery fiction, 1821-1832 --; title: "An influence comparatively silent, but deep, and strong, and irresistible" : women's literature and the rise of radical abolitionism 1831-1839 --; title: "They did not relinquish freedom without a struggle" : violence, empowerment, and moral suasion, 1839-1851 --; title: "We women will set all things right" : moral suasion and political empowerment, 1851-1861 -- -- Conclusion.; title: "The duty of woman in aiding in extending this influence of letters."