Throughout the nineteenth century, American fiction displayed a
fascination with women's speech - describing how women's voices
sound, what happens when women speak and what reactions their
speech produces, especially in their male listeners. Voices of the
Nation argues that closer inspection of these recurring
descriptions also performed political work that has had a profound
- though unspecified to date - impact on American culture.
Commentaries on the female voice were propounded by writers such as
Henry James, William Dean Howells and Noah Webster, and these texts
played a central role in attempts to define and enforce the radical
social changes instituted by the emerging bourgeoisie.
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