“A Tract in Fiction”: Woman Suffrage Literature and the Struggle for the Vote
This paper examines some of the ways suffragists used literature to negotiate empowerment in the context of their political campaign. The texts under scrutiny functioned as political tools on many levels: they mocked and subverted male authority, they expressed women’s views, they tried to educate a...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:ejas_11421 https://doi.org/10.4000/ejas.11421 urn:doi:10.4000/ejas.11421 https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/11421 2016-06-02T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/fmim https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ “A Tract in Fiction”: Woman Suffrage Literature and the Struggle for the Vote European journal of American studies European Association for American Studies info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1991-9336 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ejas Delahaye, Claire history politics fiction modernism literature power Gertrude Atherton Margaret Deland Marietta Holley Inez Haynes Irwin Elizabeth Jordan George Middleton Alice Duer Miller Helen L. Winslow woman suffrage This paper examines some of the ways suffragists used literature to negotiate empowerment in the context of their political campaign. The texts under scrutiny functioned as political tools on many levels: they mocked and subverted male authority, they expressed women’s views, they tried to educate and galvanize supporters. They point to a belief in the power of the word to change the world, both on paper and in the streets. |
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This paper examines some of the ways suffragists used literature to negotiate empowerment in the context of their political campaign. The texts under scrutiny functioned as political tools on many levels: they mocked and subverted male authority, they expressed women’s views, they tried to educate and galvanize supporters. They point to a belief in the power of the word to change the world, both on paper and in the streets. |
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