Abstract
E.D.E.N. Southworth’s novel The Hidden Hand, serialized thrice in the New York Ledger (1859, 1868–1869, 1883), is a “loud text”: a text that highlights and negotiates the cultural and social conflicts of the era. This chapter argues that the novel is contradictory, inconsistent, and ambiguous as it challenges regimes of gender, ethnicity, and class in some scenes while reinforcing them in others. These features are mirrored on the formal level as well as on the level of its primary publication medium, the story paper.
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