Romancing the vote : feminist activism in American fiction, 1870-1920 /
Leslie Petty.
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2006.
- viii, 231 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-221) and index.
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.
American fiction--History and criticism.--19th century American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century Feminist fiction, American--History and criticism. Political fiction, American--History and criticism. Feminism and literature--History.--United States Politics and literature--History.--United States Women--Suffrage--History.--United States Women's rights in literature. Suffrage in literature.