Amy Dunham Strand

Language, Gender, and Citizenship in American Literature, 1789-1919

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Creating rich connections between language and literary studies and exploring the intersection of ideologies of language, gender, and nation, this book shows how American discussions of language in various forms have often disguised deeper social and political concerns about the voices of women, African Americans, and immigrants in national life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780415991933
• ISBN-10: 0415991935
• Artikelnr.: 23605366

Autorenporträt

Amy Dunham Strand has taught at the University of Washington, the University of Cincinnati, and Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she currently resides. She has published in Studies in American Fiction and American Speech. She earned her BA from Wittenberg University and MA and PhD from the University of Washington.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: "A Band of National Union": Literature, Gender, and American
Language Ideologies 1. Hope Leslie, Women's Petitions, and Political
Discourse in Jacksonian America 2. Vocal (Im)propriety and the Management
of Sociopolitical Mobility in The Wide, Wide World and Ragged Dick 3. The
(Re)Construction of Dialect and African American (Dis)Enfranchisement in
Charles W. Chesnutt's Writings 4. 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