TY - BOOK AU - Petty,Leslie TI - Romancing the vote: feminist activism in American fiction, 1870-1920 SN - 0820328588 (alk. paper) AV - PS374.F45 P512 2006 U1 - 813/.6 22 PY - 2006/// CY - Athens PB - University of Georgia Press KW - American fiction KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - 20th century KW - Feminist fiction, American KW - Political fiction, American KW - Feminism and literature KW - United States KW - History KW - Politics and literature KW - Women KW - Suffrage KW - Women's rights in literature KW - Suffrage in literature N1 - 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0612/2006012101.html ER -