Authority and reform : religious and educational discourses in nineteenth-century New England literature /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Vásquez, Mark G., 1961-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2003]
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	American literature > New England > History and criticism. Religion and literature > New England > History > 19th century. American literature > 19th century > History and criticism. Educational change > New England > History > 19th century. Didactic literature, American > History and criticism. Authors, American > Homes and haunts > New England. New England > Intellectual life > 19th century. English language > 19th century > Rhetoric. New England > In literature. Education in literature. Religion in literature.

Table of Contents:

The "appearance of truth and simplicity" : sermonic and pedagogical styles and the post-revolutionary epistolary novel
"Correctly forming the public opinion" : religious and educational discourses, self-culture, and popular literature
"The liberty of substituting my own expressions" : women writers, revised rhetorics, and the paradoxes of mediation
Rebellious sons, representative men : Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry Ward Beecher
Epicene rhetoric and reform : gender and genre in Margaret Fuller and Nathaniel Hawthorne
Self-sacrifice and sympathy : Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, and the limits of domesticity.