Authority and reform : religious and educational discourses in nineteenth-century New England literature / by Vásquez, Mark G., 1961

Table of Contents: “…The "appearance of truth and simplicity" : sermonic and pedagogical styles and the post-revolutionary epistolary novel -- "Correctly forming the public opinion" : religious and educational discourses, self-culture, and popular literature -- "The liberty of substituting my own expressions" : women writers, revised rhetorics, and the paradoxes of mediation -- Rebellious sons, representative men : Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry Ward Beecher -- Epicene rhetoric and reform : gender and genre in Margaret Fuller and Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Self-sacrifice and sympathy : Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, and the limits of domesticity.…”