The artistry of anger : black and white women's literature in America, 1820-1860 /

The artistry of anger : black and white women's literature in America, 1820-1860 /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Grasso, Linda M.
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, [2002]
Series:Gender & American culture.
Subjects:
American fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
Feminism and literature > United States > History > 19th century.
Women and literature > United States > History > 19th century.
American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism.
American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Feminist fiction, American > History and criticism.
African American women in literature.
Social problems in literature.
Women, White, in literature.
Anger in literature.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. The anger paradigm: theories and contexts. Anger as analysis and aesthetic in American women's literature
  • Using the anger paradigm: the antebellum period as case study
  • Suppressing treasonous anger: nation-building and gendered ideologies of anger in antebellum America
  • pt. 2. Anger in the house and in the text: four case studies. Anger, exile, and restitution in Lydia Maria Child's Hobomok
  • Maria W. Stewart's inspired wrath
  • Masking anger as it is spoken: Fanny Fern's Ruth Hall
  • The text as courtroom: judgment, vengeance, and punishment in Harriet Wilson's Our Nig.