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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
ISBN-13
9780199988297
eBay Product ID (ePID)
193840712
Product Key Features
Book Title
Making Noise, Making News: Suffrage Print Culture and U.S. Modernism
Author
Mary Chapman
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Literature, Zoology, History
Publication Year
2014
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
242mm
Item Width
163mm
Volume
6
Item Weight
556g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Mary Chapman
Series Title
Oxford Studies in American Literary History
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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