Acknowledgments
Chronology of the American Women's Suffrage Campaign
Introduction: Throwing the Voice and Making It New
1. "Seditious Organs": The Noise of Modern Suffrage Print
Culture
2. "Voiceless" Speech: The Silence of Modern Suffrage Print
Culture
3. "Magpie Habit": Quotation and Ventriloquism in Alice Duer
Miller's "Are Women People?"
4. Miss Marianne Moore: "Bulldoggy" on Suffrage
5. "Straight Talk, and Quick Talk": Conversation as a Politic in
Modern Suffrage Fiction
6. Edith Eaton/Sui Sin Far's "Revolution in Ink": Print Cultural
Alternatives to U.S. Suffrage Discourse
Coda: Genealogies of Modernism and Suffrage: The Mother[s] of Us
All
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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.
"Making Noise, Making News is an important and innovative
interruption to the dominant historical narrative on US
suffragists, and, more broadly, is an example of the creative
potential of interdisciplinary approaches in historical writing."
-- Charlie Jeffries, University of Cambridge, History
"This...volume richly details the maneuvers of the suffrage
movement in order, as Chapman states, to examine 'modern
suffragists' aesthetically innovative and rhetorically effective
contributions to mass print culture, and to understandings of both
literary and political "voice," in the early twentieth-century
United States.'...[This book] will be invaluable to students of US
literature, history, and newspaper journalism, and to scholars of
US women's history,
in addition to those pursuing related inter- and transdisciplinary
studies." --American Literature
"...Chapman illuminates the aesthetics of suffrage politics, which
contrary to theories of the great divide between high and low
modernism, energized modernist experiments with voice. ... Chapman
provides smart, endlessly fascinating readings of how suffrage
stunts anticipate and vitally inform literary modernist experiments
with voice. ... Chapman's closely argued chapters effectively
dismantle the modernist great divide between politics and
aesthetics, mass
and high culture, to reveal how Progressive Era politics fueled the
literary innovation of iconic modernists Moore and Gertrude Stein,
each steeped in the issues of suffrage and voice that Chapman
resuscitates with finesse." --Tulsa Studies in Women's
Literature
"From clever marketing campaigns and publicity stunts to more
traditional journals and magazines to fiction and poetry, Chapman
identifies a range of advocacy strategies used to promote women's
suffrage in the mass print media of the early twentieth century.
...Chapman offers an entertaining look at how activists took
advantage of various print forms of communication with irresistible
humor and compelling common sense." --Legacy: A Journal of American
Women
Writers
"This bold and beautifully written study recovers the rich history
of American suffragists' literary and periodical press
provocations, challenging modernist historiographies that have
either actively erased or simply ignored the 'deep affinities'
between suffragist and avant-garde experimentalism in the U.S. A
must-read for anyone interested in the print media ecology of both
modernism and modernity." --Ann Ardis, author of Modernism and
Cultural
Conflict: 1880-1922
"Mary Chapman's exhilarating analysis shows how suffragist
strategies for entering--and disrupting--the public sphere broke
its conventions and made way for modernist literary and visual
techniques. Making Noise, Making News sounds many new notes in its
innovative approach to both modernism and suffrage." --Ellen Gruber
Garvey, author of Writing with Scissors: American Scrapbooks from
the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance
"In this well-written, innovative study of print culture, Mary
Chapman traces how American suffragists and their sympathizers used
the rhetoric of noise, silence, quotation, ventriloquism and
conversation framed in modernist sensibilities to successfully
attract attention to their cause in the early twentieth century."
--Sylvia D. Hoffert, author of When Hens Crow: The Woman's Rights
Movement in Antebellum America
"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." -- English Studies in Canada
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