Romancing the vote : feminist activism in American fiction, 1870-1920 / Leslie Petty.

Author/creator Petty, Leslie, 1970-
Format Book
Publication InfoAthens : University of Georgia Press, ©2006.
Descriptionviii, 231 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects
American fiction--19th century. --History and criticism.
American fiction--20th century. --History and criticism.
Feminist fiction, American--History and criticism.
Political fiction, American--History and criticism.
Feminism and literature--United States. --History.
Politics and literature--United States. --History.
Women--Suffrage. --United States. --History.
Women's rights in literature.
Suffrage in literature.

Contents True Christian philanthropy, or, A release from the "prison-house" of marriage : fictional representations of feminist activism in the 1870s -- Expanding the vision of feminist activism : Frances E.W. Harper's Iola Leroy and Hamlin Garland's A spoil of office -- Making it new : middlebrow literary culture and twentieth-century suffrage fiction -- The political is personal : what Henry James's The Bostonians can teach feminist activists.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [211]-221) and index.
LCCN 2006012101
ISBN0820328588 (alk. paper)
ISBN9780820328584

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks PS374.F45 P48 2006 ✔ Available Place Hold