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Loyal subjects : bonds of nation, race, and allegiance in nineteenth-century America
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ISBN: 1283383357 9786613383358 0813551129 9780813551128 9780813547817 0813547814 9780813547800 0813547806 Year: 2010 Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press,

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When one nation becomes two, or when two nations become one, what does national affiliation mean or require? Elizabeth Duquette answers this question by demonstrating how loyalty was used during the U.S. Civil War to define proper allegiance to the Union. For Northerners during the war, and individuals throughout the nation after Appomattox, loyalty affected the construction of national identity, moral authority, and racial characteristics. Loyal Subjects considers how the Civil War complicated the cultural value of emotion, especially the ideal of sympathy. Through an analysis of literary works written during and after the conflict-from Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Chiefly About War Matters" through Henry James's The Bostonians and Charles Chestnutt's "The Wife of His Youth," to the Pledge of Allegiance and W.E.B. Du Bois's John Brown, among many others-Duquette reveals that although American literary criticism has tended to dismiss the Civil War's impact, postwar literature was profoundly shaped by loyalty.

Voices of the nation : women and public speech in nineteenth-century American literature and culture
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ISBN: 0511582684 0511005733 9780511005732 9780521593748 0521593743 0521593743 9780511582684 9780521102520 0521102529 Year: 1998 Volume: 114 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Throughout the nineteenth century, American fiction displayed a fascination with women's speech - describing how women's voices sound, what happens when women speak and what reactions their speech produces, especially in their male listeners. Voices of the Nation argues that closer inspection of these recurring descriptions also performed political work that has had a profound - though unspecified to date - impact on American culture. Commentaries on the female voice were propounded by writers such as Henry James, William Dean Howells and Noah Webster, and these texts played a central role in attempts to define and enforce the radical social changes instituted by the emerging bourgeoisie.


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The politics of anxiety in nineteenth-century American literature
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ISBN: 9781107007918 9780511812071 9781107694149 9781139078818 113907881X 1107007917 0511812078 1139064053 110722182X 1283112841 9786613112842 1139076531 113908335X 113908108X 1139070819 1107694140 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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For much of the nineteenth century, the nervous system was a medical mystery, inspiring scientific studies and exciting great public interest. Because of this widespread fascination, the nerves came to explain the means by which mind and body related to each other. By the 1830s, the nervous system helped Americans express the consequences on the body, and for society, of major historical changes. Literary writers, including Nathaniel Hawthorne and Harriet Beecher Stowe, used the nerves as a metaphor to re-imagine the role of the self amidst political, social and religious tumults, including debates about slavery and the revivals of the Second Great Awakening. Representing the 'romance' of the nervous system and its cultural impact thoughtfully and, at times, critically, the fictional experiments of this century helped construct and explore a neurological vision of the body and mind. Murison explains the impact of neurological medicine on nineteenth-century literature and culture.

Narrative in the professional age : transatlantic readings of Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Eliot, and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
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ISBN: 0415969948 020360637X 1135879435 0429233906 1138811548 1280048352 0203503538 9780203503539 9780415969949 9786610048359 6610048355 9781135879433 9780429233906 9781138811546 9781280048357 1135879427 Year: 2004 Publisher: New York : Routledge,

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Challenging previous studies that claim anxiety and antagonism between transatlantic Victorian authors, Jennifer Cognard-Black uncovers a model of reciprocal influence among three of the most popular women writers of the era.

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Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher --- Criticism and interpretation --- Eliot, George --- Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart --- American fiction --- 19th century --- History and criticism --- Women authors --- Women and literature --- United States --- History --- English influences --- English fiction --- American influences --- Authorship --- Collaboration --- English literature --- Literature --- History and criticism. --- English influences. --- American influences. --- Stowe, Harriet Beecher, --- Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart, --- Eliot, George, --- Cross, Marian Evans, --- Evans, Marian, --- Eliot, Džordž, --- Ėliot, Dzhordzh, --- Cross, Mary Ann, --- Lewes, M. E. --- Lewes, Marian Evans, --- Elliŏtʻū, Choji, --- Eliyaṭ, Jārj, --- Evans, Mary Anne, --- אליוט, ג׳ַַורג׳ --- אליוט, ג׳ורג׳, --- עליאט, דזשארדזש --- עליאט, דזשארדזש, --- עליוט ג׳יארג׳, --- עליוט, גי׳ארג׳, --- עליוט, ג׳רארג׳, --- Phelps, E. Stuart --- E. S. P. --- P., E. S. --- Author of Gates ajar, --- Gates ajar, Author of, --- Author of Up hill, --- Up hill, Author of, --- Author of Ellen's idol, --- Ellen's idol, Author of, --- Author of Gypsy series, --- Gypsy series, Author of, --- Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, --- Adams, Mary, --- Bicher-Stou, Khenriet, --- Stowe, H. B. --- Stou, Khenriet Bicher-, --- Stowe, Enriqueta B., --- Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher, --- Beecher, Harriet Elizabeth, --- Bicher-Stou, G. --- Bicher-Stou, Garriet, --- Stou, Garriet Bicher-, --- Bicher-Stou, Ḣarrii̐et, --- Bicher-Stou, Ḣ. --- Stou, Ḣarrii̐et Bicher-, --- Beecher-Stowe, Harriet, --- Ssu-tʻu-huo, --- Beecher-Stowe, H. --- Stowe, H. Beecher-, --- Bētser-Stoou, --- Crowfield, Christopher, --- Beecher, H. --- Sṭav, Hēriyaṭ Pīccar, --- Sṭo, Haryeṭ Bits'er, --- Bits'er Sṭo, Haryeṭ, --- ביטשער סאאו --- ביטשער־סטאו --- סטאו, הערריעט ביטשער --- סטאו, הערריעט ביטשער, --- סטו, ביצ׳ר, --- ハリエットビーチャーストウ, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Beecher Stowe, Harriet --- Beecher Stowe, Henriette --- Beecher Stowe, H. --- Stowe, Harriet Beecher --- Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth --- Bicher-Stou, Khenriet --- Stou, Khenriet Bicher --- -Stowe, Enriqueta B. --- Beecher, Harriet Elizabeth --- Bicher-Stou, Garriet --- Stou, Garriet Bicher --- -Bicher-Stou, Ḣarrii̐et --- Stou, Ḣarrii̐et Bicher --- -Beecher-Stowe, Harriet --- Ssu-tʻu-huo --- Stowe, H. Beecher --- -Bētser-Stoou --- Crowfield, Christopher --- Sṭav, Hēriyaṭ Pīccar --- Sṭo, Haryeṭ Bits'er --- Bits'er Sṭo, Haryeṭ

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