TY - BOOK ID - 77895172 TI - Voices of the nation : women and public speech in nineteenth-century American literature and culture PY - 1998 VL - 114 SN - 0511582684 0511005733 9780511005732 9780521593748 0521593743 0521593743 9780511582684 9780521102520 0521102529 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - American fiction KW - Women and literature KW - Public speaking for women KW - Public speaking for women in literature. KW - Oratory in literature. KW - Speech in literature. KW - Voice in literature. KW - Women in literature. KW - Woman (Christian theology) in literature KW - Women in drama KW - Women in poetry KW - Women KW - History and criticism. KW - History KW - Women authors KW - Public speaking KW - Oratory in literature KW - Public speaking for women in literature KW - Speech in literature KW - Voice in literature KW - Women in literature KW - American literature KW - Women authors&delete& KW - History and criticism KW - 19th century KW - United States KW - Art oratoire dans la littérature KW - Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell KW - Southworth, Emma Dorothy Elisa Nevitte KW - Hentz, Caroline Lee Whiting KW - Jacobs, Harriet Ann KW - Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart KW - Monk, Maria KW - Blake, Lillie Devereux KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Literature UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77895172 AB - 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. ER -