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The Artistry of Anger: Black and White Women's Literature in America, 1820-1860 (Gender and American Culture)
Linda M. Grasso
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Description for The Artistry of Anger: Black and White Women's Literature in America, 1820-1860 (Gender and American Culture)
Paperback. 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. Series: Gender and American Culture. Num Pages: 344 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JH; DSBF; JFSJ1; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 381.
Grasso explores the ways in which black and white 19th-century women writers define, express, and dramatize anger. Offering close readings of works by Lydia Maria Child, Maria W. Stewart, Fanny Fern, and Harriet Wilson, she shows how women used an aesthetic of discontent to address such complex social and political issues as slavery, industrialization, imperialism, and race relations.
Grasso explores the ways in which black and white 19th-century women writers define, express, and dramatize anger. Offering close readings of works by Lydia Maria Child, Maria W. Stewart, Fanny Fern, and Harriet Wilson, she shows how women used an aesthetic of discontent to address such complex social and political issues as slavery, industrialization, imperialism, and race relations.
Product Details
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Series
Gender and American Culture
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807853481
SKU
KEX0228137
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About Linda M. Grasso
Linda M. Grasso is Associate Professor of English at York College, City University of New York.
Reviews for The Artistry of Anger: Black and White Women's Literature in America, 1820-1860 (Gender and American Culture)
"Grasso writes beautifully, with clarlty and grace. Her argument that anger operates as a driving force in the work of both white and black women writers provides an astonishingly simple, accurate, and useful paradigm for readers and scholars trying to understand the pre-Civil War period in American women's writing. Her deeply thoughtful, historically grounded, central idea
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along with her penetrating applications ... Read more