![]() | Romancing the Vote Subjects: Suffrage in literature.; Women''s rights in literature.; Women; Politics and literature; Feminism and literature; Political fiction American; Feminist fiction American; American fiction; American fiction; As the nineteenth century progressed into the twentieth, novels about politically active women became increasingly common. Until now, however, no one has studied this body of writing as a distinct tradition in American literature. In Romancing the Vote , Leslie Petty recovers this tradition and also examines how the fiction written about the women's rights and related movements contributed to the creation and continued vitality of those movements. LESLIE PETTY is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Rhodes College. |
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