Sylvia J Cook

Working Women, Literary Ladies

The Industrial Revolution and Female Aspiration

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the simultaneous entry of working-class women in the United States into wage-earning factory labour and into opportunities for mental and literary development. It traces the hopes and tensions generated by expectations of their gender and class from the first New England operatives in the early nineteenth century to immigrant sweatshop workers in the early twentieth.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780195327816
• ISBN-10: 0195327810
• Artikelnr.: 26174571

Autorenporträt

Sylvia Jenkins Cook was born and grew up in Belfast, N. Ireland. She was educated at Queen's University and at the University of Michigan is currently Professor of english at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. She has published previously on the literature of working-class and poor people and on the literature of the American South.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction -"Mind amongst the Spindles"
* Chapter One: "A Tangled Skein": Early Factory Women, Self-Reliance,
and Self-Sacrifice
* Chapter Two: "Ideal Mill Girls: The Lowell Offering and Female
Aspiration
* Chapter Three: Across the Gulf: The Transcendentalists, the Dial, and
Margaret Fuller
* Chapter Four: The Prospects for Fiction: Male Romantic Novelists and
Women's Social Reality
* Chapter Five: Fables of Lowell: The First Factory Fictions
* Chapter Six: The Working Woman's Bard: Lucy Larcom and the Factory
Epic
* Chapter Seven: Full Development or Self-Restraint: Middle-Class Women
and Working-Class Elevation
* Chapter Eight: "Beautiful Language and Difficult Ideas": From New
England Factory to New York Sweatshop