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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, and regional backgrounds. Beginning with sentimental fiction and polemic, progressing through modernist and middlebrow experiments, and concluding with post-ratification memoirs and tributes, this anthology showcases lost and neglected fiction, poetry, drama, literary journalism, and autobiography; it also samples invative print cultural forms devised for the campaign, such as valentines, banners, and cartoons. Featured writers include canical figures such as Stowe, Fern, Alcott, Gilman, Djuna Barnes, Marianne Moore, Millay, Sui Sin Far, and Gertrude Stein, as well as writers popular in their day but, until w, lost to ours.Product Identifiers
PublisherRutgers University Press
ISBN-100813553539
ISBN-139780813553535
eBay Product ID (ePID)114447717
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Book TitleTreacherous Texts : an Anthology of U. S. Suffrage Literature, 1846-1946
Number of Pages352 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2012
IllustratorYes
GenreLiterary Criticism, History, Social Science
AuthorAngela Mills
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight18.1 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
Height156mm
Width162mm
Weight505g
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SubjectGovernment & Constitution
Intended AudienceTrade
Date of Publication15/05/2012
Place of PublicationNew Brunswick, NJ
Spine24mm
Country of PublicationUnited States
Edited byAngela Mills, Mary Chapman
Author BiographyMary 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.
ImprintRutgers University Press
