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Romancing the Vote: Feminist Activism in American Fiction, 1870-1920
Leslie Petty
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Description for Romancing the Vote: Feminist Activism in American Fiction, 1870-1920
Hardcover. As the nineteenth century progressed into the twentieth, novels about politically active women became increasingly common. This work examines how the fiction written about the women's rights and related movements contributed to the creation and continued vitality of those movements. It looks at novels as paradigms of feminist activism. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBF; DSBH; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 467.
As the nineteenth century progressed into the twentieth, novels about politically active women became increasingly common. Until now, however, no one has studied this body of writing as a distinct tradition in American literature. In ""Romancing the Vote"", Leslie Petty not only recovers this tradition but also examines how the fiction written about the women's rights and related movements contributed to the creation and continued vitality of those movements. Petty examines the novels as paradigms of feminist activism and reform communities and elucidates how they, whether wittingly or not, model ways to create similar communities in the real world. She ... Read more
As the nineteenth century progressed into the twentieth, novels about politically active women became increasingly common. Until now, however, no one has studied this body of writing as a distinct tradition in American literature. In ""Romancing the Vote"", Leslie Petty not only recovers this tradition but also examines how the fiction written about the women's rights and related movements contributed to the creation and continued vitality of those movements. Petty examines the novels as paradigms of feminist activism and reform communities and elucidates how they, whether wittingly or not, model ways to create similar communities in the real world. She ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820328584
SKU
V9780820328584
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About Leslie Petty
Leslie Petty is an assistant professor of English at Rhodes College.
Reviews for Romancing the Vote: Feminist Activism in American Fiction, 1870-1920
Drawing on historical and cultural sources as well as the fictional work of several writers, Petty has written a study that successfully debunks the 'separate spheres' of male and female experience and provides important commentary about overlooked fiction. Romancing the Vote is an illuminating new study of the activist heroine in late nineteenth-century/early twentieth-century American literature. - Susan Belasco, University ... Read more