Voices of the nation : women and public speech in nineteenth-century American literature and culture /

Throughout the nineteenth century, American fiction displayed a fascination with women's speech - describing how women's voices sound and what reactions their speech produces, especially in their male listeners. Closer inspection of these recurring descriptions reveals that they also perfo...

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Main Author: Levander, Caroline Field, 1964-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Series:Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 114.
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Online Access:CONNECT