Includes bibliographical references ([207]-221) and index.
Contents
The problem of voice in American culture, 1850-1930 -- American women's fiction, 1850-1880 : domestic discourses in the writings of Fanny Fern, Louisa May Alcott, and Harriet Wilson -- From the law of the father to the law of the feminine : Mary Wilkins Freeman's and Anna Julia Cooper's revisionary voices -- The search for a feminine voice in the works of Kate Chopin -- Herstory in hisland, history in herland : Charlotte Perkins Gilman's reconstruction of gender and language -- The politics of hybridity in Frances Harper's Iola Leroy -- Jessie Faucet's and Willa Cather's metalinguistic, ethnic discourses -- Coda : beyond the binary?
