Lori Merish

Archives of Labor

Working-Class Women and Literary Culture in the Antebellum United States

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Produktbeschreibung

Lori Merish establishes working-class women as significant actors within nineteenth-century U.S. literary culture by analyzing previously unexplored archives of working-class women's literature, showing how white, African American, and Mexican American factory workers, seamstresses, domestic workers, and prostitutes understood themselves while forging class identity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780822362999
• ISBN-10: 0822362996
• Artikelnr.: 45711441

Autorenporträt

Lori Merish

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction  1
1. Factory Fictions: Lowell Mill Women and the Romance of Labor  33
2. Factory Labor and Literary Aesthetics: The Lowell Mill Girl, Popular
Fiction, and the Proletarian Grotesque  73
3. Narrating Female Dependency: The Sentimental Seamstress and the Erotics
of Labor Reform  113
4. Harriet Wilson's Our Nig and the Labor of Race  153
5. Hidden Hands: E.D.E.N. Southworth and Working-Class Performance  180
6. Writing Mexicana Workers: Race, Labor, and the Western Front  219
Postscript. Looking for Antebellum Workingwomen  247
Notes  251
Works Cited  285
Index  303