Treacherous texts : U.S. suffrage literature, 1846-1946 / edited by Mary Chapman, Angela Mills.
"Although the suffrage campaign is often associated in popular memory with oratory, this anthology affirms that suffragists recognized early on that literature could also exert a power to move readers to imagine new roles for women in the public sphere. Beginning with sentimental fiction and po...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
2011.
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| Series: | Treacherous texts.
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| Summary: | "Although the suffrage campaign is often associated in popular memory with oratory, this anthology affirms that suffragists recognized early on that literature could also exert a power to move readers to imagine new roles for women in the public sphere. Beginning with sentimental fiction and polemic, progressing through modernist and middlebrow experiment, and concluding with post-ratification memoirs and tributes, this anthology showcases lost and neglected fiction, poetry, drama, literary journalism, and autobiography; it also samples innovative print cultural forms devised for the campaign, such as valentines, banners, and cartoons. Featured writers include canonical figures such as Stowe, Fern, Alcott, Gilman, Djuna Barnes, Marianne Moore, Millay, Sui Sin Far, and Gertrude Stein, as well as writers popular in their day but, until now, lost to ours."--Publisher. |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 334 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-323) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813549590 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0813549590 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780813553535 (pbk.) 0813553539 (pbk.) |