Caroline Field LevanderVoices of the Nation
Women and Public Speech in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture
Introduction; The Voice of the Nation: Gender, Speech, and
Nineteenth-Century American life; 1. Bawdy talk: The Politics of Women's
Speech in Henry James's The Bostonians and Sarah J. Hale's The Lecturess;
2. 'Foul Mouthed Women': Disembodiment and Public Discourse in Herman
Melville's Pierre and E.D.E.N. Southworth's The Fatal Marriage; 3.
Incarnate Words: Nativism, Nationalism, and the Female Body in Maria Monk's
Awful Disclosures ; 4. Partners in Speech: Reforming Labor, Class, and the
Working Woman's Body in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's The Silent Partner; 5.
'Queer Trimmings': Dressing, Cross-Dressing, and Women's Suffrage in Lillie
Deereux Blake's Fettered for Life; 6. Southern Oratory and The Slavery
Debate in Caroline Lee Hentz's Planter's Northern Bride and Harriet
Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl; Conclusion; 'Every Wrong
that Needs a Voice': Women and Political Activism at the Turn into the
Twentieth Century.
