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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457085403321

Autore

Petty Leslie <1970->

Titolo

Romancing the vote [[electronic resource] ] : feminist activism in American fiction, 1870-1920 / / Leslie Petty

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, Ga., : University of Georgia Press, c2006

ISBN

1-283-25321-6

9786613253217

0-8203-4289-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Disciplina

813/.4093522

Soggetti

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

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-221) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.