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

Published Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 231 pages) 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 Summary Leslie Petty is an assistant professor of English at Rhodes College Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-221) and index Notes English Print version record Subject 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. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies. American fiction Feminism and literature Feminist fiction, American Political fiction, American Politics and literature Suffrage in literature Women -- Suffrage Women's rights in literature United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 2006012101 ISBN 9780820342894 0820342890 1283253216 9781283253215 9786613253217 6613253219

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