Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: "A Band of National Union": Literature, Gender, and American Language Ideologies; 1 Hope Leslie, Women's Petitions, and Political Discourse in Jacksonian America; 2 Vocal (Im)Propriety and the Management of Sociopolitical Mobility in The Wide, Wide World and Ragged Dick; 3 The (Re)Construction of Dialect and African American (Dis)Franchisement in Charles W. Chesnutt's Writings; 4 Henry James and the Linguistic Domestication of Women and Immigrants at the Turn of the Century
Summary
Creating rich connections between language and literary studies and exploring the intersection of ideologies of language, gender, and nation, this book shows how American discussions of language in various forms have often disguised deeper social and political concerns about the voices of women, African Americans, and immigrants in national life
