Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-238) and index.
Contents
Pt. 1. The anger paradigm: theories and contexts. Anger as analysis and aesthetic in American women's literature -- Using the anger paradigm: the antebellum period as case study -- Suppressing treasonous anger: nation-building and gendered ideologies of anger in antebellum America -- Pt. 2. Anger in the house and in the text: four case studies. Anger, exile, and restitution in Lydia Maria Child's Hobomok -- Maria W. Stewart's inspired wrath -- Masking anger as it is spoken: Fanny Fern's Ruth Hall -- The text as courtroom: judgment, vengeance, and punishment in Harriet Wilson's Our Nig.