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Language and Gender in American Fiction

Howells, James, Wharton and Cather

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  • © 1997

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  1. Elsa Nettels
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Elsa Nettels
    Pages 1-3

  3. Language and Gender in Victorian America

    • Elsa Nettels
    Pages 5-26

  4. The Voices of Men and Women in Howells’s Fiction and Drama

    • Elsa Nettels
    Pages 27-46

  5. Masculine and Feminine in James’s Criticism and Fiction

    • Elsa Nettels
    Pages 47-85

  6. Language and Convention in Wharton’s Hieroglyphic World

    • Elsa Nettels
    Pages 86-120

  7. Singers, Writers and Storytellers in Cather’s America

    • Elsa Nettels
    Pages 121-158

  8. Illusions of Change in Utopian Fiction

    • Elsa Nettels
    Pages 159-183

  9. Conclusion

    • Elsa Nettels
    Pages 184-186

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 187-214
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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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