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Voices of the Nation: Women and Public Speech in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture - Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Levander, Caroline Field (Trinity University, Texas)
Voices of the Nation: Women and Public Speech in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture - Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
Levander, Caroline Field (Trinity University, Texas)
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.
204 pages, black & white illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | January 13, 1998 |
| ISBN13 | 9780521593748 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 204 |
| Dimensions | 160 × 235 × 22 mm · 471 g |
| Language | English |
| Series Editor | Gelpi, Albert (Stanford University, California) |
| Series Editor | Posnock, Ross |