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Author Petty, Leslie, 1970-

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

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

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Description viii, 231 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-221) and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0820328588 (alk. paper)
9780820328584 (alk. paper)
9780820342894 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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