Language, gender, and citizenship in American literature, 1789-1919

Introduction: "a band of national union": literature, gender, and American language ideologies

Hope Leslie, women's petitions, and political discourse in Jacksonian America

Vocal (im)propriety and the management of sociopolitical mobility in the wide, wide world and Ragged Dick

The (re)construction of dialect and African American (dis)enfranchisement in Charles W. Chesnutt's writings

Henry James and the linguistic domestication of women and immigrants at the turn of the century

Coda: Herland and "the future of English": considering language, gender, and national identity in early-20th-century America.