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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Petty, Leslie, 1970-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2006]
Subjects:
Suffrage in literature.
Women's rights in literature.
Women > Suffrage > United States > History.
Politics and literature > United States > History.
Feminism and literature > United States > History.
Political fiction, American > History and criticism.
Feminist fiction, American > History and criticism.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
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Table of 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.