“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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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj-art-13b3a28337d14a01ba808c38742c219c2025-01-06T09:09:10ZengEuropean Association for American StudiesEuropean Journal of American Studies1991-93362016-06-0111110.4000/ejas.11421“A Tract in Fiction”: Woman Suffrage Literature and the Struggle for the VoteClaire DelahayeThis 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.https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/11421historypoliticsfictionmodernismliteraturepower |
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| title | “A Tract in Fiction”: Woman Suffrage Literature and the Struggle for the Vote |
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