Language and Gender in American Fiction

Howells, James, Wharton and Cather

Paperback Engels 1997 9781349114085
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Elsa Nettels's analysis of American fiction and criticism of the post-Civil War era unearths the prevailing assumptions about language and gender as revealed in definitions of masculine and feminine, and in comparisons of men's and women's speech and writing. Chapters on William Dean Howells, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and Utopian fiction show how individual writers both reinforced and subverted gender ideology in their treatment of language and social class and in their construction of dialogue and the discourse of first and third person narrators.

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ISBN13:9781349114085
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan UK

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Acknowledgements - List of Abbreviations - Introduction - Language and Gender in Victorian America - The Voices of Men and Women in Howells's Fiction and Drama - Masculine and Feminine in James's Criticism and Fiction - Language and Convention in Wharton's Hieroglyphic World - Singers, Writers, and Storytellers in Cather's America - Illusions of Change in Utopian Fiction - Conclusion - Notes - Index

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