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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822059703321

Autore

Grasso Linda M

Titolo

The artistry of anger : Black and white women's literature in America, 1820-1860 / / Linda M. Grasso

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill [N.C.] ; ; London, : University of North Carolina Press, c2002

ISBN

979-88-908682-4-4

0-8078-6019-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Collana

Gender and American culture

Disciplina

813/.3099287

Soggetti

American fiction - Women authors - History and criticism

Feminism and literature - United States - History - 19th century

Women and literature - United States - History - 19th century

American fiction - African American authors - History and criticism

American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

Feminist fiction, American - History and criticism

African American women in literature

Social problems in literature

Women, White, in literature

Anger in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-238) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments; Part I. The Anger Paradigm; 1. Anger as Analysis and Aesthetic in American Women's Literature; 2. Using the Anger Paradigm; 3. Suppressing Treasonous Anger; Part II. Anger in the House and in the Text; 4. Anger, Exile, and Restitution in Lydia Maria Child's Hobomok; 5. Maria W. Stewart's Inspired Wrath; 6. Masking Anger as It Is Spoken; 7. The Text as Courtroom; Conclusion: Making Sure the Anger Holds; Notes; Notes; Bibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

In this study, Linda M. Grasso demonstrates that using anger as a mode of analysis and the basis of an aesthetic transforms our understanding of American women's literary history. She explores how black and white 19th-century women writers defined, expressed and dramatized anger.