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Romancing the vote : feminist activism in American fiction, 1870-1920
- Title
- Romancing the vote : feminist activism in American fiction, 1870-1920 / Leslie Petty.
- Author
- Petty, Leslie, 1970-
- Publication
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2006], ©2006.
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- Description
- viii, 231 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "As the nineteenth century progressed into the twentieth, novels about politically active women became increasingly common. Until now, however, no one has studied this body of writing as a distinct tradition in American literature. In Romancing the Vote, Leslie Petty recovers this tradition and also examines how the fiction written about the women's rights and related movements contributed to the creation and continued vitality of those movements." "Petty examines the novels as paradigms of feminist activism and reform communities and elucidates how they, whether wittingly or not, model ways to create similar communities in the real world. She demonstrates how the narratives provide insight into the hopes and anxieties surrounding some of the most important political movements in American history and how they encapsulate the movements' paradoxical blend of progressive and conservative ideologies."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Women > Suffrage > United States > History
- American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
- Feminism and literature > United States > History
- Suffrage in literature
- Politics and literature > United States > History
- Political fiction, American > History and criticism
- Women's rights in literature
- Feminist fiction, American > History and criticism
- American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-221) and index.
- Contents
- Ch. 1. "True Christian philanthropy"; or, a release from the "prison-house" of marriage : fictional representations of feminist activism in the 1870s -- Ch. 2. Expanding the vision of feminist activism : Frances E. W. Harper's Iola Leroy and Hamlin Garland's A spoil of office -- Ch. 3. Making it new : middlebrow literary culture and twentieth-century suffrage fiction -- Ch. 4. The political is personal : what Henry James's The Bostonians can teach feminist activists.
- ISBN
- 0820328588 (alk. paper)
- 9780820328584 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006012101
- 9780820328584
- OCLC
- OCM67727698
- 67727698
- SCSB-5303993
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries