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Making Noise, Making News - Suffrage Print Culture and U.S. Modernism (Hardcover)
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Making Noise, Making News - Suffrage Print Culture and U.S. Modernism (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in American Literary History, 6
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For most people, the US suffrage campaign is encapsulated in images
of orators such as the tightly coifed Susan B. Anthony, the wimpled
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and others who hectored for women's rights
throughout the nineteenth century. The campaign to secure the vote
for US women, however, was also a modern and print-cultural
phenomenon, waged with humor, style, and creativity. 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. A century before the advent of "social
media", suffragists mobilized the masses [fashioned a "suffragist
spring" through creative forms of propaganda including advocacy
journals, guest-edited mainstream magazines, banners, voiceless
speech placards, publicity stunts, poetry, and fiction. These
propaganda forms made the public sphere much more inclusive even as
they also perpetuated an image of the suffragist New Woman as
native-born, white, and middle-class. 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 US suffrage print culture contributed to,
and even anticipated, the formal innovations of US literary
modernism. Drawing on little-known archives and featuring over
twenty visually stunning illustrations, Making Noise, Making News
provides startling documentation of Marianne Moore's closeted
career as a suffrage propagandist, the persuasive effects of
Algonquin Table's 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
recognition of intersections between suffrage discourse and
literary modernism.
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