Laurie J. C. Cella

The Personal and the Political in American Working-Class Literature, 1850-1939

Defining the Radical Romance

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Produktbeschreibung

This bookexamines the censure of working-class women's leisure activities in public spaces as a condemnation of female identity and agency in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature. It explores these activities as first steps toward a unified labor movement.

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Produktdetails

• Innovation and Activism in American Women's Writing
• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9781498581202
• ISBN-10: 149858120X
• Artikelnr.: 56974032

Autorenporträt

By Laurie J. C. Cella

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: The Lowell Experiment: Finery,
Chastity, and an Emerging Working-class Culture Chapter 2: Maud Matchin: A
Working-Class American Beauty in John Hay's The Breadwinners (1896) Chapter
3: Strikers at the Ball: Radical Romances of the Great Shirtwaist Strike,
Diary of a Shirtwaist Striker (1909) and Comrade Yetta (1913) Chapter 4:
Romance on the Picket Line: Mary Heaton Vorse's Strike! (1930) and Dorothy
Myra Page's Gathering Storm (1932) Chapter 5: Violence and Female Sexuality
in Sherwood Anderson's Beyond Desire (1932) and William Rollins's The
Shadow Before (1934) Chapter 6: Romance as Redemption in Olive Tilford
Dargan's Call Home the Heart (1932), Stone Came Rolling (1935) and Grace
Lumpkin's To Make My Bread (1932) Conclusion Works Cited