Language, gender, and citizenship in American literature, 1789-1919 / Amy Dunham Strand.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Strand, Amy Dunham.

Series:

American popular history and culture (Routledge (Firm))

Studies in American popular history and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--19th century--Criticism and interpretation.

American literature.

Politics and literature--United States--History--19th century.

Politics and literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

United States.

History.

United States--Intellectual life--19th century.

Intellectual life.

English philology.

Gender identity in literature.

Citizenship in literature.

Physical Description:

xii, 261 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2009.

Contents:

Introduction: "a band of national union": literature, gender, and American language ideologies

Hope Leslie, women's petitions, and political discourse in Jacksonian America

Vocal (im)propriety and the management of sociopolitical mobility in the wide, wide world and Ragged Dick

The (re)construction of dialect and African American (dis)enfranchisement in Charles W. Chesnutt's writings

Henry James and the linguistic domestication of women and immigrants at the turn of the century

Coda: Herland and "the future of English": considering language, gender, and national identity in early-20th-century America.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-251) and index.

ISBN:

9780415991933

0415991935

OCLC:

227002108