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For most people, the U.S. suffrage campaign is encapsulated by images of iconic nineteenth-century orators like the tightly coifed Susan B. Anthony or the wimpled Elizabeth Cady Stanton. However, as Mary Chapman shows, the campaign to secure the vote for U.S. women was also a modern and print-cultural phenomenon, waged with humor, creativity, and style.
Making Noise, Making News also understands modern suffragist print culture as a demonstrable link between the Progressive Era's political campaign for a voice in the public sphere and Modernism's aesthetic efforts to re-imagine literary voice. Chapman charts a relationship between modern suffragist print cultural "noise" and what literary modernists understood by "making it new," asserting that the experimental tactics of U.S. suffrage print culture contributed to, and even anticipated, the formal innovations of U.S. literary modernism. Drawing on little-known archives and featuring over twenty illustrations,
Making Noise, Making News provides startling documentation of Marianne Moore's closeted career as a suffrage propagandist, the persuasive effects of Alice Duer Miller's popular poetry column, Asian-American author Sui Sin Far's challenge to the racism and classism of modern suffragism, and Gertrude Stein's midcentury acknowledgement of intersections between suffrage discourse and literary modernism.
Table des matières
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology of the American Women's Suffrage Campaign
- Introduction: Throwing the Voice and Making It New
- Chapter 1: "Seditious Organs": The Noise of Modern Suffrage Print Culture
- Chapter 2: "Voiceless" Speech: The Silence of Modern Suffrage Print Culture
- Chapter 3: "Magpie Habit": Quotation and Ventriloquism in Alice Duer Miller's "Are Women People?"
- Chapter 4: Miss Marianne Moore: "Bulldoggy" on Suffrage
- Chapter 5: "Straight Talk, and Quick Talk": Conversation as a Politic in Modern Suffrage Fiction
- Chapter 6: Edith Eaton/Sui Sin Far's "Revolution in Ink": Print Cultural Alternatives to U.S. Suffrage Discourse
- Coda: Genealogies of Modernism and Suffrage
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
A propos de l'auteur
Mary Chapman is a Professor of English at the University of British Columbia. She is the coeditor of Treacherous Texts: U.S. Suffrage Literature 1846-1946.
Résumé
In this fascinating cultural history, Mary Chapman demonstrates the importance of the aesthetically innovative print culture produced by US suffragists in the two decades leading up to the passage of the 19th Amendment, seven decades after women's rights activists first met at Seneca Falls.
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Drawing on a wealth of recent and more established scholarship, Chapman's book will be read as a welcome addition to feminist literary history, suffrage history, sound and print culture studies, and modernist literary studies. It is a generous gift of a book.
