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Romancing the Vote : Feminist Activism in American Fiction, 1870-1920.

Petty, Leslie.

Romancing the Vote : Feminist Activism in American Fiction, 1870-1920. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (240 pages)

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE: "True Christian Philanthropy" -- or, a Release from the "Prison-House" of Marriage: Fictional Representations of Feminist Activism in the 1870s -- CHAPTER TWO: Expanding the Vision of Feminist Activism: Frances E.W. Harper's Iola Leroy and Hamlin Garland's A Spoil of Office -- CHAPTER THREE: Making It New: Middlebrow Literary Culture and Twentieth-Century Suffrage Fiction -- CHAPTER FOUR: The Political Is Personal: What Henry James's The Bostonians Can Teach Feminist Activists -- Coda -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

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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.


Electronic books.

PS374.F45 -- P48 2006eb

813/.4093522

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