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Treacherous Texts
. Ed(S): Chapman, Mary; Mills, Angela
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Description for Treacherous Texts
Paperback. Editor(s): Chapman, Mary; Mills, Angela. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; JPHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 505.
Treacherous Texts collects more than sixty literary texts written by smart, savvy writers who experimented with genre, aesthetics, humor, and sex appeal in an effort to persuade American readers to support woman suffrage. Although the suffrage campaign is often associated in popular memory with oratory, this anthology affirms that suffragists recognized early on that literature could also exert a power to move readers to imagine new roles for women in the public sphere.
Uncovering startling affinities between popular literature and propaganda, Treacherous Texts samples a rich, decades-long tradition of suffrage literature created by writers from diverse racial, class, ... Read more
Treacherous Texts collects more than sixty literary texts written by smart, savvy writers who experimented with genre, aesthetics, humor, and sex appeal in an effort to persuade American readers to support woman suffrage. Although the suffrage campaign is often associated in popular memory with oratory, this anthology affirms that suffragists recognized early on that literature could also exert a power to move readers to imagine new roles for women in the public sphere.
Uncovering startling affinities between popular literature and propaganda, Treacherous Texts samples a rich, decades-long tradition of suffrage literature created by writers from diverse racial, class, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813553535
SKU
V9780813553535
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About . Ed(S): Chapman, Mary; Mills, Angela
Mary Chapman is an associate professor of English at the University of British Columbia. She is the coeditor of Sentimental Men: Masculinity and the Politics of Affect in American Culture. Angela Mills is a former assistant professor of English at Brock University.
Reviews for Treacherous Texts
"This exciting anthology has no competitors. With an impressive historical range and a great diversity of primary documents and useful reference materials, Treacherous Texts offers an original contribution to scholarship and an important classroom teaching tool."
Ann Ardis
University of Delaware
"Treacherous Texts highlights diversity and contestation within the U.S. suffrage movement by mining activists' innovative use ... Read more
Ann Ardis
University of Delaware
"Treacherous Texts highlights diversity and contestation within the U.S. suffrage movement by mining activists' innovative use ... Read more