Treacherous Texts: An Anthology of U.S. Suffrage Literature, 1846-1946
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Treacherous Texts: An Anthology of U.S. Suffrage Literature, 1846-1946
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Overview
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 innovative print cultural forms devised for the campaign, such as valentines, banners, and cartoons. Featured writers include canonical 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 now, lost to ours.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780813550756 |
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| Publisher: | Rutgers University Press |
| Publication date: | 04/15/2011 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 352 |
| File size: | 2 MB |
About the Author
Mary 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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Chronology of the U.S. Woman Suffrage Campaign xi
Introduction 1
Part I Declaring Sentiments, 1846-1891
Introduction 10
"Petition for Woman's Rights" (1846) Eleanor Vincent Susan Ormsby Lydia Williams Amy Ormsby Lydia Osborn Anna Bishop 18
"Declaration of Sentiments" (1848) Elizabeth Cady Stanton Frederick Douglass others 20
Speech at Akron, Ohio, Woman's Rights Convention (1851) Sojourner Truth 24
Christine, or, Woman's Trials and Triumphs (1856) Laura J. Curtis Bullard 26
"Independence" (1859)
"Shall Women Vote?" (1860) Fanny Fern Sara Willis Parton 41
"Woman and the Ballot" (1870) Frederick Douglass 43
"Aunt Chloe's Politics" (1871)
"John and Jacob-A Dialogue on Woman's Rights" (1885) Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 47
My Wife and I; or, Harry Henderson's History (1871) Harriet Beecher Stowe 51
"Cupid and Chow-Chow" (1872) Louisa May Alcott 62
"Trotty's Lecture Bureau" (1877) Elizabeth Stuart Phelps 74
"How I went to 'lection" (1877) Marietta Holley 77
Fettered for Life, or, Lord and Master (1874)
"A Divided Republic: An Allegory of the Future" (1885) Lillie Devereux Blake 86
"Another Chapter of 'The Bostonians'" (1887) Henrietta James Celia B. Whitehead 100
Wynema: A Child of the Forest (1891) Sophia Alice Callahan 108
Part II Searching for Sisterhood: Two Case Studies of Transnational Feminism, 1907-1914
Introduction 114
Interactions between U.S. and British Campaigns 119
Votes for Women (1907) Elizabeth Robins 120
"The March of the Women" (1911) Dame Ethel Smyth Cicely Hamilton 133
"The Diary of a Newsy" (1911) Jessie Anthony 135
Julia France and Her Times (1912) Gertrude Atherton 138
"How it Feels to be Forcibly Fed" (1914) Djuna Barnes 148
Interactions between U.S. and Chinese Campaigns 152
"The Inferior Woman" (1910) Sui Sin Far Edith Maude Eaton 153
"The Oppression of Women" (1915)
"In All Earnestness, I speak to all my sisters" (1915) Anonymous 163
"Catching Up with China" Banner (1912)
New York Suffrage Party 165
"Heathen Chinee" Cartoon (1912) Anonymous 167
Part III Making Woman New! 1897-1920
Introduction 170
"Women Do Not Want It" (1897)
"The Anti-Suffragists" (1898)
"The Socialist and the Suffragist" (1911) Charlotte Perkins Gilman 177
"The Australian Ballot System" (1898) Mabel Clare Ervin 182
Portia Politics (1911-1912) Edith Bailey 186
"Disfranchisement" from Mother Goose as a Suffragette (1912)
"Taffy" from Mother Goose as a Suffragette (1912): New York Woman Suffrage Party 190
"Women March" (1912) Mary Alden Hopkins 193
"The Arrest of Suffrage" (1912) Ethel Whitehead 200
"Brother Baptis' on Woman Suffrage" (1912) Rosalie Jonas 206
"Mirandy on 'Why Women Can't Vote'" (1912) Dorothy Dix Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer 207
Hagar (1913) Mary Johnston 211
"The Parade: A Suffrage Playlet in One Act and an After-Act" (1913) Allan Dawson Nell Perkins Dawson 220
"The Woman with Empty Hands: The Evolution of a Suffragette" (1913)
Anonymous Marion Hamilton Carter 225
"How it Feels to be the Husband of a Suffragette" (1914): Anonymous 231
"Our Own Twelve Anti-Suffragist Reasons" (1914)
"Representation" (1914)
"The Revolt of Mother" (1915)
"A Consistent Anti to Her Son" (1915) Alice Duer Miller 235
"A Plea for Suffrage" (1915) M. M. Marianne Moore 239
"The President's Valentine" (1916) Nina E. Allender 241
Fanny Herself (1917) Edna Ferber 243
The Sturdy Oak, chapter 7 (1917) Anne O'Hagan 254
For Rent-One Pedestal (1917) Marjorie Shuler 263
"President Wilson says 'Godspeed to the Cause'" Cartoon (1917)
"Come to Mother" Cartoon (1917) Nina E. Allender 270
"President Wilson's War Message" Banner (1917): Anonymous [National Woman's Party members] 273
"Telling the Truth at the White House" (1917) Marie Jenney Howe Paula Jakobi 275
"We Worried Woody Wood" (1917): Anonymous [Jailed members of the National Woman's Party] 280
"Prison Notes, Smuggled to Friends from the District Jail" (1917) Rose Winslow Ruza Wenclawska 282
"Switchboard Suffrage" (1920) Oreola Williams Haskell 284
Part IV Carrying the Suffrage Torch, 1920-1946
Introduction 290
Jailed For Freedom (1920) Doris Stevens 294
"Upon this marble bust that is not I" (1923) Edna St. Vincent Millay 298
"The Suffrage Torch: Memories of a Militant" (1929) Louisine W. Havemeyer 300
The Mother of Us All (1946) Gertrude Stein 306
Notes 311
Selected Bibliography of U.S. Suffrage Literature 321
Index 325