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The Artistry of Anger: Black and White Women's Literature in America, 1820-1860
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Literary TheoryCritical Race TheoryHarriet WilsonFeminist DebateBlack ExperienceSocial SciencesAmerican LiteratureBlack Feminist ThoughtLiterary CriticismGender StudiesAfrican American StudiesLydia Maria ChildFeminist IdentityLanguage StudiesMaria W. StewartFeminist Literary TheoryBlack Feminist TheoryFeminist ScholarshipFeminist PerspectiveFeminist TheoryFeminist PhilosophyLiterary HistoryBlack Women’s StudiesBlack FeminismWhite Women
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.