Treacherous Texts: An Anthology of U.S. Suffrage Literature, 1846-1946

by Mary Chapman

Book 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813553539
• ISBN13: 9780813553535
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"